Prospect Place & Kingston Avenue

Prospect Place and Kingston Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Crown Heights North III Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brower Park is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Kingston Av/Prospect Pl · B43
Within a walk
17 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Prospect Place & Kingston Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingston Av/Prospect Pl, 120 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av/Prospect Pl B43
    120 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Kingston Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & Park Pl 21 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 51 Brooklyn Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 145 Brooklyn Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
36
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
82 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1914.

Trees

NYC Parks records 92 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

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

East side of Kingston Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Prospect Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Prospect Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Crown Heights North III Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 398 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1896 and 1907.

  1. Greater Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Designated landmark
    510 feet
  2. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Designated landmark
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    230 feet
  2. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    520 feet
  3. Creative Learning Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet
Show all 5
  1. Lighthouse Early Learning Center School
    930 feet
  2. Edwards L. Cleaveland Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    50 feet
  2. St. Mark's Playground
    680 feet
  3. Brower Park Playground
    910 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    180 feet
  2. Brower Park Library
    1,100 feet
  3. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Church of God in Christ Landmark
    400 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    840 feet
  2. Older adult center at 196 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 11 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 Kingston Avenue or Prospect Place.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.