Park Place & New York Avenue

Park Place and New York Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North II Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn M.E. Church Home for the Aged and the Infirm stands 240 feet away, and Brower Park is 820 feet away. The nearest subway, Nostrand Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Nostrand Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
New York Av/Sterling Pl · B44
Within a walk
16 places
6 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Place & New York Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Nostrand 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 New York Av/Sterling Pl, 240 feet away, for the B44.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Sterling Pl B44 · Shelter
    240 feet
    B44
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling Pl & New York Ave 25 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.4 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
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11216
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
92 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1928.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 43 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Park Place

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 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 in the Crown Heights North II Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 409 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1895 and 1906.

  1. Trinity Baptist Church Designated landmark
    230 feet
  2. Brooklyn M.E. Church Home for the Aged and the Infirm Designated landmark
    240 feet
  3. NYC Dept. of Social Services Child Day Care Center Designated landmark
    500 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    440 feet
  2. Park Place DC Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  3. Park Place Day Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    940 feet
Show all 6
  1. Success Academy Charter School - Prospect Heights School
    1,280 feet
  2. The Dr. Jean Pierre-Louis School of Excellence School
    1,280 feet
  3. P.S. 138 Brooklyn Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    820 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    1,160 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    440 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gregory the Great RC Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,310 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along New York 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.