Pacific Street & Buffalo Avenue

Pacific Street and Buffalo Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Kingsborough development. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kingsborough Houses Pacific Playground is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Ralph Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ralph Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
700 feet
Bergen St/Buffalo Av · B15, B65
Within a walk
25 places
9 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pacific Street & Buffalo Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av 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. Utica Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bergen St/Buffalo Av, 700 feet away, for the B15 and B65.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St/Buffalo Av B15, B65
    700 feet
    B15 B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Pacific Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Buffalo Ave 21 docks in all
    610 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 52 Rochester Avenue Gas station
    1,260 feet
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
41
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
74 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,300 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 in 1950.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Kingsborough development.

Since 2014 at least 62 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Sixteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Pacific Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Vernacular. They were built in 1830.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Weeksville Heritage Center.

  1. Sugar in My Bowl II Sculpture by Chakaia Booker, 2012
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    530 feet
  2. NY Center for Child Dev Atlantic Ave School
    700 feet
  3. Shirley Chisholm Day Care Center #1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kingsborough Houses Pacific Playground
    520 feet
  2. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground
    930 feet
  3. South Pacific Playground
    1,050 feet
Show all 5
  1. F.A.R.R. Community Garden
    1,150 feet
  2. Garden of Plenty Garden
    1,250 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Center for Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    1,210 feet
  2. Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Weeksville Heritage Center Historic site · listed historic place
    890 feet
  2. Hunterfly Road Historic District Listed historic place
    940 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary Fellowship AME Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 447 Kingsborough 4 Walk Older adult center
    520 feet
  2. Older adult center at Kingsborough Extension Older adult center
    610 feet
  3. Kingsborough Community Center
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,220 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Buffalo Avenue, Kingsborough 4th Walk or Pacific Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.