Pacific Street & Kingston Avenue

Pacific Street and Kingston Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Miriam Carter Way by local law. It lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North III Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Uncommon New York City Charter School #1 is 220 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about three minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
920 feet · 3 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Kingston Av/Pacific St · B43
Within a walk
15 places
7 schools, 4 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pacific Street & Kingston Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 920 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    920 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingston Av/Pacific St, 110 feet away, for the B43.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av/Pacific St B43 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B43
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Kingston Ave 22 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    1,280 feet
  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
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Miriam Carter Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1898 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 7 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Miriam Carter Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2015 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kingston Avenue

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

West side of Kingston Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Pacific Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 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 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 332 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and built between 1855 and 1972.

  1. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Designated landmark
    810 feet
  2. Greater Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Designated landmark
    820 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon New York City Charter School #1 School
    220 feet
  2. Achievement First Brooklyn High School
    370 feet
  3. Achievement First Charter School 11 School
    370 feet
Show all 7
  1. Uncommon Charter High School
    370 feet
  2. Academy for Health Careers School
    1,050 feet
  3. Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-Tech) School
    1,050 feet
  4. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Andrew's Playground
    360 feet
  2. Her-King Alagantic Community Garden
    1,190 feet
  3. St. Mark's Playground
    1,250 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brower Park
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kingston 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, 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.