Nostrand Avenue & St Marks Avenue

Nostrand Avenue and St Marks Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Damon S. Allen Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mama Dee's Community Garden is 810 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 45 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Nostrand Av/Bergen St · B44
Within a walk
24 places
13 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & St Marks Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Nostrand Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    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. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3
  2. Park Pl S
    0.5 miles
    S

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Bergen St, 190 feet away, for the B44.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Bergen St B44
    190 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 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.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2016

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
82 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Damon S. Allen 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 2,800 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 1930.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Damon S. Allen Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Nostrand Avenue

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

West side of Nostrand Avenue

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

North side of St Marks Avenue

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

South side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 300422 and 305495.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 227 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1889 and 1897.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    830 feet
  3. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    830 feet
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  1. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    830 feet
  2. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    830 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 1100 Bergen Street Community Garden
    460 feet
  2. Mama Dee's Community Garden
    810 feet
  3. Grant Gore Park
    1,140 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    1,180 feet
  2. Ulysses S Grant Statue Monument or memorial
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bedford Central Presbyterian Church Landmark
    540 feet
  2. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church House of worship
    920 feet
  3. Washington Temple Church God House of worship
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    120 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 45 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 St Marks Avenue.

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.