Park Avenue & Franklin Avenue

Park Avenue and Franklin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 30 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Hychel Hatorah is 280 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bedford Av/Park Av, is 570 feet away for the B44, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, ten of them schools, and six places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
30 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
570 feet
Bedford Av/Park Av · B44
Within a walk
27 places
10 schools, 8 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Park Av, 570 feet away, for the B44.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Park Av B44
    570 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Franklin Avenue.

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Franklin Ave & Myrtle Ave 27 docks in all
    750 feet

By car

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

  1. 75 Classon Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 28-17 42nd Road Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 30 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
33
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2002 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 96 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 45 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2024 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING HOTEL LOADING ZONE
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-8PM

North side of Park Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 10 schools
  • 8 day care or pre-K sites
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Hychel Hatorah School
    280 feet
  2. Bnos Spinka Boys School
    440 feet
  3. Bnos Square of Williamsburg 2 School
    520 feet
Show all 17
  1. Talmud Torah Toshbar School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    520 feet
  2. Yeshiva Nachlas Tzvi D'Krula Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    550 feet
  3. Jolly Baby Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    580 feet
  4. Ach Tov V'Chesed School · school-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    680 feet
  5. Talmud Torah Tashbar School
    750 feet
  6. P.S./I.S. 157 the Benjamin Franklin Health & Science Academy School
    850 feet
  7. Tickle Toes Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    900 feet
  8. Gan Bnos Yisroel Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
  9. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
  10. Yeshiva Bnos Israel School
    950 feet
  11. Child care center at 77-87 Wallabout Street School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,170 feet
  12. Cong Yeshuos Moshe of Williamsburg School
    1,290 feet
  13. Darkei Tshivo of Dinov School
    1,290 feet
  14. Talmud Torah Tzemach Tzadik Viznitz School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Taaffe Playground
    650 feet
  2. Myrtle Village Green Garden
    950 feet

Fire and police

  1. Ladder 102 Fire station
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Chestnut Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. One Stop Kosher Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Franklin Avenue or Park 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.