St Marks Avenue & Brooklyn Avenue

St Marks Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Crown Heights North Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brower Park is 50 feet away, and Brooklyn Children's Museum is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about ten minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Brooklyn Av/Bergen St · B43
Within a walk
18 places
8 religious buildings, 2 listed historic places and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Marks Avenue & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.5 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Bergen St, 230 feet away, for the B43.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Bergen St B43
    230 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Brooklyn Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Prospect Pl 25 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

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
71 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 1900 and 1926.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 55 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and November 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • Electric vehicle charging only 2 signs ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING ONLY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of St Marks Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Crown Heights North Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 316 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1890 and 1908.

  1. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Designated landmark
    370 feet
  2. Greater Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Designated landmark
    530 feet
  3. NYC Dept. of Social Services Child Day Care Center Designated landmark
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    780 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brower Park
    50 feet
  2. Brower Park Playground
    580 feet
  3. St. Mark's Playground
    1,120 feet

Health care

  1. Crown Heights Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice · landmark
    560 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brower Park Library
    200 feet
  2. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    200 feet
  3. Crown Heights North Historic District Listed historic place
    1,020 feet
Show all 4
  1. Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gregory the Great RC Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and two food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or St Marks 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.