Park Avenue & Adelphi Street

Park Avenue and Adelphi Street meet at a four-way crossing in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Sacred Heart Church is 310 feet away, and Institutional Church of God is 1,240 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Park Av/Carlton Av, is 170 feet away for the B62, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat. About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Park Av/Carlton Av · B62
Within a walk
15 places
5 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & Adelphi Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Park Av/Carlton Av, 170 feet away, for the B62.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Av/Carlton Av B62
    170 feet
    B62

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Park Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clermont Ave & Park Ave 19 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 168 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
42 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 103 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Adelphi Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Adelphi Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM

South side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 33 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1850 and 1878.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Greene Hill School
    260 feet
  2. Fort Greene Preparatory Academy School
    670 feet
  3. P.S. 046 Edward C. Blum School
    670 feet
Show all 7
  1. Atlantic Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  2. Benjamin Banneker Academy School
    1,120 feet
  3. Growth Mindset Learning Lab Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,310 feet
  4. Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Oracle Playground
    700 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Garden Apartments (Navy Yard) Listed historic place
    590 feet
  2. Feuchtwanger Stable Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sacred Heart Church House of worship
    310 feet
  2. Institutional Church of God House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,230 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Adelphi Street or Park Avenue.

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