President Street & Kingston Avenue

President Street and Kingston Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Mark's Day School is 800 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 31 public places, 24 of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
670 feet · 3 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Kingston Av/Carroll St · B43
Within a walk
31 places
24 religious buildings, 5 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
President Street & Kingston Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 670 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    670 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
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingston Av/Carroll St, 230 feet away, for the B43.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & Carroll St 20 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2016
  • Turn calming, January 2026

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 900 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 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 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
  • 11 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kingston Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8:30AM-7PM 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

West side of Kingston Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 9AM-7PM 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 337691 and 340913.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 31 public places.

  • 24 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 museum

Schools and child care

  1. St Mark's Day School
    800 feet
  2. Yeled Vyalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    950 feet
  3. Arista Prep School
    1,030 feet
Show all 6
  1. Chabad Girls Academy School
    1,140 feet
  2. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    1,150 feet
  3. Gan Academy School
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jewish Children's Museum
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Chabad Lubavitch World HQ House of worship
    520 feet
  2. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    1,010 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    820 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 12 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 Kingston 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.