Pacific Street & Brooklyn Avenue

Pacific Street and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St. Andrew's Playground is 630 feet away, and First AME Zion Methodist Church is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Brooklyn Av/Atlantic Av · B43
Within a walk
14 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pacific Street & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av A, C
    0.5 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Atlantic Av, 170 feet away, for the B43.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Atlantic Av B43
    170 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Brooklyn Avenue and Pacific Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Dean St 19 docks in all
    270 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
    0.4 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,030 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

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
61 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Pacific Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Pacific Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 235 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1888 and 1903.

  1. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Designated landmark
    700 feet
  2. NYC DSS Child Day Care Center Designated landmark
    730 feet
  3. New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon New York City Charter School #1 School
    640 feet
  2. Achievement First Brooklyn High School
    710 feet
  3. Achievement First Charter School 11 School
    710 feet
Show all 4
  1. Uncommon Charter High School
    710 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Andrew's Playground
    630 feet
  2. Brower Park
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brower Park Library
    1,090 feet
  2. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First AME Zion Methodist Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.