President Street & Brooklyn Avenue

President Street and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Mark's Day School is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, 16 of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
1,300 feet · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Brooklyn Av/Union St · B43
Within a walk
23 places
16 religious buildings, 4 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
President Street & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 3 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. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Union St, 200 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Union St B43
    200 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Brooklyn Ave 21 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 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, June 2019

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
108 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2016 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

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

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

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

North side of President Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of President Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 16 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. St Mark's Day School
    200 feet
  2. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    940 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    940 feet
Show all 6
  1. Gan Academy School
    950 feet
  2. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    1,070 feet
  3. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    400 feet
  2. Chabad Lubavitch World HQ House of worship
    1,100 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: 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:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or President Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.