Schenectady Avenue & Montgomery Street

Schenectady Avenue and Montgomery Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 221 Toussaint L'Ouverture is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1939, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
10 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Lefferts Av/Schenectady Av · B12
Within a walk
12 places
6 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Schenectady Avenue & Montgomery 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 six 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, 480 feet away, for the B12.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 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
    480 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
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
65 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 1925 and 1939.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and August 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Montgomery Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Montgomery Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Schenectady Avenue

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

West side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 339967.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery Preschool
    490 feet
  2. Uncommon Schools School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    780 feet
  3. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Troy Avenue School
    860 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 221 Toussaint L'Ouverture School
    880 feet
  2. Uncommon Ocean Hill CMS School
    880 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Gospel Crusade Church of the Pentecost House of worship
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    870 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,020 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and eight 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 Montgomery 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.