President Street & Classon Avenue

President Street and Classon Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The bust “Dr. Ronald McNair” is 340 feet away, and Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment is 470 feet away. The nearest subway, Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, is about five minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them schools, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum
1,280 feet · 5 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Classon Av/President St · B48
Within a walk
19 places
7 schools, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
President Street & Classon Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, 1,280 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    1,280 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    1,280 feet
    2 3 4 5 S
  2. Park Pl S
    0.5 miles
    S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “New York City Architectural Artifacts from the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum” (2004) by MTA Arts & Design Collaborative at the Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Classon Av/President St, 110 feet away, for the B48.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Classon Av/President St B48 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B48
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Classon Avenue.

  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carroll St & Washington Ave 27 docks in all
    410 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
139 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of President Street

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

South side of President Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and four buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1893 and 1917.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Dr. Ronald McNair Park.

  1. Joseph A. Guider Urn by Romeo Frassanito, 1930
    160 feet
  2. Dr. Ronald McNair Bust by Ogundipe Fayomi, 1994
    340 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 botanical garden
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Clara Barton High School
    340 feet
  2. Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment School
    470 feet
  3. Brooklyn School for Music & Theatre School
    470 feet
Show all 12
  1. International High School at Prospect Heights School
    470 feet
  2. The High School for Global Citizenship School
    470 feet
  3. P.S. 241 Emma L. Johnston School
    590 feet
  4. St Francis de Sales-Deaf-Brooklyn School
    670 feet
  5. Chai Tots Preschool of Prospect Heights Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    820 feet
  6. Little Angel Day Care #3 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    850 feet
  7. Bumblebees -R-Us Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,120 feet
  8. Classon Avenue Pre-K
    1,130 feet
  9. Wurzelkinder Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dr. Ronald McNair Park
    50 feet
  2. Brooklyn Botanic Garden Botanical garden · landmark
    830 feet
  3. Union Street Garden and Community Development Garden
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Museum Landmark · listed historic place
    630 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and ten 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 Classon Avenue or President Street.

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