Schenectady Avenue & Empire Boulevard

Schenectady Avenue and Empire Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 35 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. P.S. 221 Toussaint L'Ouverture is 560 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
30 hurt
35 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Lefferts Av/Schenectady Av · B12
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 6 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Schenectady Avenue & Empire Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.4 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, 150 feet away, for the B12.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Empire Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lefferts Ave & Schenectady Ave 27 docks in all
    150 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
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 35 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 30 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, October 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
41
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,400 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 1927 and 1940.

Since 2014 at least 54 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Empire Boulevard

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Empire Boulevard

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery Preschool
    170 feet
  2. Uncommon Schools School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    460 feet
  3. P.S. 221 Toussaint L'Ouverture School
    560 feet
Show all 9
  1. Uncommon Ocean Hill CMS School
    560 feet
  2. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Troy Avenue School
    850 feet
  3. Achievement First Crown Heights Charter School
    1,080 feet
  4. New Heights Middle School
    1,080 feet
  5. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  6. Bnos Menachem School
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Gospel Crusade Church of the Pentecost House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    540 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    700 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Empire Boulevard or Schenectady Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.