Pacific Street & Vanderbilt Avenue

Pacific Street and Vanderbilt Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Josephs RC Church is 380 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about five minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 53 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
1,260 feet · 5 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Vanderbilt Av/Pacific St · B69
Within a walk
21 places
10 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Pacific Street & Vanderbilt Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 1,260 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs C
    1,260 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Bergen St 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    2 3
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Vanderbilt Av/Pacific St, 120 feet away, for the B69.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Vanderbilt Av/Pacific St B69
    120 feet
    B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Vanderbilt Avenue.

  • 58 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Vanderbilt Ave 27 docks in all
    610 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
79 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph

Homes

About 3,100 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 between 2014 and 2021.

Since 2014 at least 457 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2021 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Pacific Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Pacific Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MAY-SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 11AM-11PM
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of Vanderbilt Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MAY-SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 11AM-11PM
  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 330117.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 66 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1879 and 1891.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 parks
  • 2 pedestrian plazas

Schools and child care

  1. League School - Vanderbilt School
    780 feet
  2. Aozora Community Foundation Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    920 feet
  3. P.S. K753 - School for Career Development School
    1,000 feet
Show all 5
  1. ABR Prospect Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,230 feet
  2. Luria Academy of Brooklyn School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Mark's Avenue / Prospect Heights Community Garden
    800 feet
  2. Lowry Triangle
    880 feet
  3. Gateway Triangle
    1,110 feet
Show all 4
  1. Prospect Heights Community Farm Garden
    1,190 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Underhill Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    960 feet
  2. Gates Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Josephs RC Church House of worship
    380 feet
  2. St Luke St Mathew Church Landmark · listed historic place
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 53 places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Pacific Street or Vanderbilt 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.