Nostrand Avenue & Prospect Place

Nostrand Avenue and Prospect Place meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Dr. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward Place by local law. It lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North II Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence is 500 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places and 46 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Nostrand Av/Prospect Pl · B44
Within a walk
19 places
8 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Prospect Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 6 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Park Pl S
    0.4 miles
    S
  2. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Prospect Pl, 50 feet away, for the B44.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Prospect Pl B44
    50 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Prospect Pl & Nostrand Ave 22 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 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 May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2023

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
86 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dr. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward Place, a co-naming enacted on December 29, 2008 (Local Law 64 of 2008).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 36 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dr. Susan Smith McKinney-Steward Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and May 2026, 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 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30AM-NOON 2PM-7PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 5 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-2PM

North side of Prospect Place

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM ALL DAYS

South side of Prospect Place

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 300422 and 310113.

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 189 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1894 and 1898.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    410 feet
  2. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    500 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    500 feet
Show all 7
  1. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    500 feet
  2. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    500 feet
  3. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  4. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden
    790 feet
  2. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    1,090 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    880 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church House of worship
    870 feet
  2. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    210 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    830 feet
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 46 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 Prospect Place.

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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.