Park Place & Buffalo Avenue

Park Place and Buffalo Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Uncommon Excellence Girls CMS is 290 feet away, and Weeksville Heritage Center is 820 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Buffalo Av/Park Pl, is 150 feet away for the B15, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Buffalo Av/Park Pl · B15
Within a walk
28 places
15 religious buildings, 5 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Place & Buffalo Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Buffalo Av/Park Pl, 150 feet away, for the B15.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Buffalo Av/Park Pl B15
    150 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Park Pl & Buffalo Ave 20 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1412 Eastern Parkway Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    700 feet
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
95 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1928.

Since 2014 at least 81 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Heritage oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Park Place

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Park Place

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Weeksville Heritage Center.

  1. Sugar in My Bowl II Sculpture by Chakaia Booker, 2012
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 historic site
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon Excellence Girls CMS School
    290 feet
  2. P.S. 191 Paul Robeson School
    360 feet
  3. Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy (Cbla) School
    1,080 feet
Show all 5
  1. Explore Empower Charter School
    1,080 feet
  2. M.S. K394 School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sterling Community Group Garden
    1,050 feet
  2. St. John's Place Renaissance Garden
    1,260 feet
  3. Preston Community Garden
    1,290 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Center for Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    630 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Weeksville Heritage Center Historic site · listed historic place
    820 feet
  2. Hunterfly Road Historic District Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 447 Kingsborough 4 Walk Older adult center
    1,210 feet
  2. Older adult center at Kingsborough Extension Older adult center
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

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