St Marks Avenue & Classon Avenue

St Marks Avenue and Classon Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Academy for Collaborative Exploration is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Park Pl, is about four minutes on foot, for the S. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 24 places to eat. About 3,100 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
5 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Park Pl
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · S
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Classon Av/Prospect Pl · B48
Within a walk
13 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Marks Avenue & Classon Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Park Pl, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Park Pl S
    1,000 feet
    S

Next trains at this station

Franklin Av
1 line
  1. S …
Prospect Park
1 line
  1. S …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Units of the Free” (1999) by Isha Shabaka at the Park Pl station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Classon Av/Prospect Pl, 240 feet away, for the B48.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Classon Av/Prospect Pl B48
    240 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Classon Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Classon Ave & St Marks Ave 27 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 552 Prospect Place Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2016
  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 8
City Council district
35
Police precinct
77
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (North)
Elevation
109 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 127 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2014 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Classon Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School
    300 feet
  2. The Academy for Collaborative Exploration School
    300 feet
  3. P.S. 316 Elijah Stroud School
    920 feet
Show all 5
  1. Interfaith Med Ctr School of Nursing College
    1,000 feet
  2. Brooklyn Jesuit Prep School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Stroud Playground
    1,040 feet

Health care

  1. Downtown Brooklyn Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    650 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Nassau Brewery Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    460 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Garden Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and nine 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

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