Park Place & Franklin Avenue

Park Place and Franklin Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Downtown Brooklyn Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is 990 feet away, and P.S. 316 Elijah Stroud is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 46 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
380 feet · 1 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Franklin Av/Sterling Pl · B48
Within a walk
17 places
11 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Place & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Park Pl, 380 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park Pl S
    380 feet
    S

Next trains at this station

Franklin Av
1 line
  1. S …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    1,240 feet
    2 3 4 5 S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Units of the Free” (1999) by Isha Shabaka at the Park Pl station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Franklin Av/Sterling Pl, 300 feet away, for the B48.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Franklin Av/Sterling Pl B48
    300 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Franklin Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1285 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 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, July 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
108 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 1906 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 24 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

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 2017 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Franklin Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Park Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Park Place

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Thirteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Queen Anne, and built between 1889 and 1890.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Interfaith Med Ctr School of Nursing College
    760 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  3. Brooklyn Jesuit Prep School
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 316 Elijah Stroud School
    1,220 feet

Health care

  1. Downtown Brooklyn Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Nassau Brewery Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kol Israel Congregation Listed historic place
    710 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    1,280 feet
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 46 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Franklin 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.