President Street & Schenectady Avenue

President Street and Schenectady Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. New Bridges Elementary is 910 feet away, and the Battalion 38/Engine 234/Ladder 123 firehouse is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
700 feet · 3 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Eastern Pkwy/Schenectady Av · B17
Within a walk
21 places
12 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
President Street & Schenectady Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 700 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    700 feet
    3 4

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Good Morning and Good Night” (2004) by Hugo Consuegra at the Crown Hts-Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Eastern Pkwy/Schenectady Av, 600 feet away, for the B17.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy/Schenectady Av B17
    600 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Schenectady Ave & President St 22 docks in all
    60 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. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

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
105 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1919 and 1924.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of President Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of President Street

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

East side of Schenectady Avenue

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

West side of Schenectady Avenue

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 338695.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 libraries
  • 1 fire station

Schools and child care

  1. Highlights Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet
  2. New Bridges Elementary School
    910 feet
  3. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    1,050 feet
Show all 6
  1. Congregation Ohr Menachem School
    1,180 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  3. Beis Chaya Muska School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Library
    560 feet
  2. Eastern Parkway Learning Center Library
    570 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Mathew RC Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 38/Engine 234/Ladder 123 Fire station
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    880 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,180 feet
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 17 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 President Street or Schenectady Avenue.

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.