Park Place & Brooklyn Avenue

Park Place and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North II Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. NYC Dept. of Social Services Child Day Care Center stands 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places and four places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Brooklyn Av/Park Pl · B43
Within a walk
16 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Place & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Park Pl, 120 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Park Pl B43
    120 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Brooklyn Avenue.

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Prospect Pl 25 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    1,030 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

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
79 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1907 and 1939.

Since 2014 at least 48 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • Farmers market 2 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY JUNE 1 - NOV 30 THURSDAY 7AM-4PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Park Place

  • Back-in parking only 10 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Park Place

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 275 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1900 and 1910.

  1. NYC Dept. of Social Services Child Day Care Center Designated landmark
    300 feet
  2. St. Gregory the Great Rectory Designated landmark
    390 feet
  3. St. Gregory the Great School Designated landmark
    550 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 library
  • 1 museum
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    320 feet
  2. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    60 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    390 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice · landmark
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brower Park Library
    650 feet
  2. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    650 feet
  3. Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    950 feet
Show all 4
  1. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gregory the Great RC Church Landmark
    480 feet
  2. First Church of God in Christ House of worship
    870 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    980 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and one food store.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Park Place.

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 and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.