Park Place & Kingston Avenue

Park Place and Kingston Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Shirley Chisholm Place by local law. It lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North III Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. First Church of God in Christ is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
450 feet
Kingston Av/Prospect Pl · B43
Within a walk
21 places
7 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Place & Kingston Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.5 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingston Av/Prospect Pl, 450 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av/Prospect Pl B43
    450 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Kingston Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & Park Pl 21 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, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  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 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

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
85 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Shirley Chisholm Place, a co-naming enacted on December 29, 2008 (Local Law 64 of 2008).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1903 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 23 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 95 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Shirley Chisholm Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 47 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and November 2022; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kingston Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • 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 Kingston Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Park Place

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Park Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 358 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1899 and 1907.

  1. Greater Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Designated landmark
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    190 feet
  2. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    550 feet
  3. Edwards L. Cleaveland Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
Show all 8
  1. Yeled Vyalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet
  2. Arista Prep School
    1,040 feet
  3. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  4. Creative Learning Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet
  5. Lighthouse Early Learning Center School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    50 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    590 feet
  3. St. Mark's Playground
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Church of God in Christ Landmark
    100 feet
  2. St Gregory the Great RC Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    520 feet
  2. Older adult center at 196 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    1,250 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,100 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kingston 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 Records, 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.