Nostrand Avenue & President Street

Nostrand Avenue and President Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Joyce Quamina’s Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. M a C a D E M Y is 830 feet away. The nearest subway, President St-Medgar Evers College, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them schools, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
President St-Medgar Evers College
70 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Nostrand Av/Carroll St · B44, B96
Within a walk
12 places
5 schools, 4 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & President Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is President St-Medgar Evers College, 70 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    70 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av 3
    680 feet
    3
  2. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Carroll St, 440 feet away, for the B44 and B96.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Carroll St B44, B96 · Shelter
    440 feet
    B44 B96
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. B96 …

Live arrivals

Nostrand Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 10am and 4pm to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. President St & Nostrand Ave 28 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 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
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
120 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Joyce Quamina’s Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1914 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Joyce Quamina’s Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

West side of Nostrand Avenue

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

North side of President Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of President Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 308113 and 311544.

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Renaissance Revival and neo-Romanesque, one each, and built between 1907 and 1930.

  1. Kings County Savings Bank Designated landmark
    820 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School
    480 feet
  2. Ella Baker / Charles Romain Child Development Center of Medgar Evers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  3. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    830 feet
Show all 7
  1. Crown Multi-Educ Services Preschool
    990 feet
  2. Beth Rivkah High School
    990 feet
  3. P.S. 161 the Crown School
    1,210 feet
  4. Success Academy Charter School - Crown Heights School
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Philadelphia Sabbath Cathedral Listed historic place
    480 feet
  2. First Baptist Church Crown Heights House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and 12 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 President 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 Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.