President Street & Albany Avenue

President Street and Albany Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 99 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Chabad Lubavitch World HQ is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 32 public places, 21 of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

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President Street & Albany Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 1,300 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    1,300 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.4 miles
    3 4

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingston Av/Carroll St, 970 feet away, for the B43.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av/Carroll St B43 · Shelter
    970 feet
    B43
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Albany Ave & Carroll St 19 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

In 2025, 99 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,760th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
107 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1909 and 1924.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and March 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of President Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of President Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 public places.

  • 21 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 schools
  • 1 museum

Schools and child care

  1. Chanoch Lenaar School
    550 feet
  2. United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    800 feet
  3. United Lubavitcher Yeshiva School
    880 feet
Show all 10
  1. United Lubavitch Yeshiva Pre-K
    880 feet
  2. Beis Chaya Muska School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    920 feet
  3. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    930 feet
  4. United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Annex School
    930 feet
  5. Cheeryos Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,020 feet
  6. Cheeryos Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,020 feet
  7. Chabad Girls Academy School
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jewish Children's Museum
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Chabad Lubavitch World HQ House of worship
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    520 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and 12 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.