Nostrand Avenue & Eastern Parkway

Nostrand Avenue and Eastern Parkway meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North II Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 75 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 2,762 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. Kings County Savings Bank stands 180 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about a minute on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
37 hurt
75 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
120 feet · 1 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Eastern Pkwy/Nostrand Av · B96
Within a walk
19 places
10 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Eastern Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 120 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    120 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    680 feet
    2 5
  2. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Eastern Pkwy/Nostrand Av, 60 feet away, for the B96.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy/Nostrand Av B96
    60 feet
    B96

Next buses at this stop

  1. B96 …

Live arrivals

Nostrand Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Nostrand Ave 27 docks in all
    110 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 75 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 37 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 14 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,762 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 67th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 285 more were issued.

Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71 and 77 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
110 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to five travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 8 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 112 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 85 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and December 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 10am to noon, 2pm to 4pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Nostrand Avenue (west side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 8:30am to noon, 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 2pm to 7pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Nostrand Avenue (west side).

North side of Eastern Parkway

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 19 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Eastern Parkway

  • Doctor plates only 1 sign DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-NOON

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 300603, 307305 and 333028.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Crown Heights North II Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 132 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1898 and 1903.

  1. Kings County Savings Bank Designated landmark
    180 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    830 feet
  2. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany of Brooklyn NY School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    900 feet
  3. Epiphany Lutheran Elementary School
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    1,140 feet
  2. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet
  3. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,260 feet
  4. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral Listed historic place
    230 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    800 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eastern Parkway or Nostrand Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.