Schenectady Avenue & Crown Street

Schenectady Avenue and Crown Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 27 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Gospel Crusade Church of the Pentecost is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
15 hurt
27 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
800 feet
Lefferts Av/Schenectady Av · B12
Within a walk
21 places
9 religious buildings, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Schenectady Avenue & Crown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.3 miles
    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 Lefferts Av/Schenectady Av, 800 feet away, for the B12.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lefferts Av/Schenectady Av B12
    800 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Schenectady Ave & President St 22 docks in all
    710 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 27 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2016
  • 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
82 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1928.

Since 2014 at least 11 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 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
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and August 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Crown Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Crown Street

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

East side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 2 libraries

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    580 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care and Nursery Preschool
    810 feet
  3. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Troy Avenue School
    1,180 feet
Show all 10
  1. Uncommon Schools School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,110 feet
  2. Cheeryos Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet
  3. Cheeryos Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,180 feet
  4. P.S. 221 Toussaint L'Ouverture School
    1,200 feet
  5. Uncommon Ocean Hill CMS School
    1,200 feet
  6. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    1,270 feet
  7. Beis Chaya Muska School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Library
    1,210 feet
  2. Eastern Parkway Learning Center Library
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Gospel Crusade Church of the Pentecost House of worship
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    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 13 places to eat and ten 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Crown 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.