St Marks Avenue & Buffalo Avenue

St Marks Avenue and Buffalo Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 100 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. The sculpture “Sugar in My Bowl II” is 140 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Buffalo Av/Saint Marks Av, is 110 feet away for the B15 and B65, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
1.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Buffalo Av/Saint Marks Av · B15, B65
Within a walk
26 places
11 religious buildings, 4 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Marks Avenue & Buffalo Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Buffalo Av/Saint Marks Av, 110 feet away, for the B15 and B65.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Buffalo Av/Saint Marks Av B15, B65
    110 feet
    B15 B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on St Marks Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Buffalo Ave 21 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    440 feet
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 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
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 100 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 178th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 49 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
41
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
86 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,800 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 1910 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 79 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2022 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Buffalo Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of St Marks Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO COMMUNITY BOARD MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Vernacular. They were built in 1830.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Weeksville Heritage Center.

  1. Sugar in My Bowl II Sculpture by Chakaia Booker, 2012
    140 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Uncommon Excellence Girls CMS School
    940 feet
  2. P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods School
    970 feet
  3. The Brooklyn Green School
    970 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 191 Paul Robeson School
    1,010 feet
  2. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kingsborough Houses Bergen Playground
    850 feet
  2. Tehuti Ma’at Community Garden
    870 feet
  3. Woods Playground
    970 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Center for Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care Nursing home or hospice
    320 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Weeksville Heritage Center Historic site · listed historic place
    170 feet
  2. Hunterfly Road Historic District Listed historic place
    500 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Church of Christ House of worship
    910 feet
  2. Berean Baptist Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 447 Kingsborough 4 Walk Older adult center
    560 feet
  2. Older adult center at Kingsborough Extension Older adult center
    580 feet
  3. Kingsborough Community Center
    1,190 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 227 Fire station
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Buffalo Avenue or St Marks Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.