Park Avenue & Marcus Garvey Boulevard

Park Avenue and Marcus Garvey Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Sumner development. Between 2021 and 2025, 37 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,555 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Sumner Community Center is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
31 hurt
37 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
700 feet · 3 min on foot · J, M
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Marcus Garvey Blvd/Park Av · B15
Within a walk
22 places
7 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Avenue & Marcus Garvey Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 700 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av J, M
    700 feet
    J M

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle Av J, M, Z
    0.3 miles
    J M Z
  2. Lorimer St J, M
    0.5 miles
    J M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Migration” (2006) by Robin Holder at the Flushing Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Marcus Garvey Blvd/Park Av, 150 feet away, for the B15.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Marcus Garvey Blvd/Park Av B15
    150 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Park Ave & Marcus Garvey Blvd 23 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1199 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 7 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 37 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 31 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 9 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,555 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 533rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 518 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on Marcus Garvey Boulevard961347
Westbound on Park Avenue594171
Total1,555518

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79 and 81 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
44 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 between 1950 and 1951.

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

Since 2014 at least 384 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Thirteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Marcus Garvey Boulevard

  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Marcus Garvey Boulevard

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Park Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Kindergarten Society Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    100 feet
  2. P.S. 059 the Dawn Best School
    860 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 2 School
    860 feet
Show all 7
  1. Ohel Chaya School
    940 feet
  2. Congregation Luminous Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,200 feet
  3. Luminous Bushwick Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet
  4. Boricua College - Brooklyn College
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Love Garden - Sumner Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    60 feet
  2. Sumner Playground
    640 feet
  3. Bushwick Playground
    1,230 feet

Health care

  1. Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center Hospital
    590 feet
  2. EMS Station 57 Ambulance station
    680 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brooklyn Temple Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Sumner Community Center
    300 feet
  2. Older adult center at 862 Park Avenue Older adult center
    300 feet
  3. Community center at 303 Vernon Avenue Community center
    1,180 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,200 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Green Corner Fish & Farmers Market Supermarket
    1,010 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    880 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 22 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Marcus Garvey Boulevard or Park Avenue.

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