Park Place & Virginia Place

Park Place and Virginia Place meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North III Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. First Church of God in Christ is 450 feet away, and Albany Community Center is 1,180 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
970 feet
Kingston Av/Prospect Pl · B43
Within a walk
20 places
5 religious buildings, 5 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Park Place & Virginia Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven 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 Kingston Av/Prospect Pl, 970 feet away, for the B43.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & Park Pl 21 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2023.

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
92 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2021 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Park Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Virginia Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Virginia Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North III Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 306 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1897 and 1907.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Edwards L. Cleaveland Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    440 feet
  2. Creative Learning Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  3. Lighthouse Early Learning Center School
    730 feet
Show all 8
  1. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    720 feet
  2. Kipp Always Mentally Prepared Charter School
    950 feet
  3. Kipp Amp Elementary Charter School
    950 feet
  4. The School of Integrated Learning School
    950 feet
  5. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    580 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    1,110 feet
  3. St. Mark's Playground
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. First Church of God in Christ Landmark
    450 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 196 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    730 feet
  2. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    1,040 feet
  3. Albany Community Center
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Park Place or Virginia 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.