Nostrand Avenue & Pacific Street

Nostrand Avenue and Pacific Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Westbrook Memorial Garden is 550 feet away, and Walt L. Shamel Community Garden is 1,060 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 47 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Nostrand Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
20 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
980 feet · 4 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Nostrand Av/Pacific St · B44
Within a walk
17 places
8 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Pacific Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 980 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    980 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av C, S
    0.5 miles
    C S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Pacific St, 120 feet away, for the B44.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Pacific St B44 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B44
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pacific St & Nostrand Ave 22 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 32 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1928.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the goldenrain tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Nostrand Avenue

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

West side of Nostrand Avenue

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

North side of Pacific Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Pacific Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 312658 and 334955.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 185 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Queen Anne. They were mostly built between 1888 and 1893.

  1. The Union League Club Designated landmark
    790 feet
  2. First Church of Christ, Scientist Designated landmark
    790 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Westbrook Memorial Garden
    550 feet
  2. 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden
    570 feet
  3. United Herkimer Garden Club Garden
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
    1,060 feet
  2. Grant Gore Park
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    1,200 feet
  2. Twenty-Third Regiment Armory Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church Landmark
    370 feet
  2. Friendship Baptist Church Listed historic place
    690 feet
  3. St Bartholemew Episcopal Church Landmark · listed historic place
    770 feet
Show all 5
  1. South Brooklyn Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    970 feet
  2. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Breevort Post Office
    520 feet
  2. Older adult center at 19 Rogers Avenue Older adult center
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,020 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  3. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 47 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Nostrand Avenue or Pacific Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.