St Marks Avenue & Kingston Avenue

St Marks Avenue and Kingston 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, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Greater Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church stands 280 feet away, and St. Andrew's Playground is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston-Throop Avs, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, eight of them schools, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston-Throop Avs
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Kingston Av/Prospect Pl · B43
Within a walk
23 places
8 schools, 4 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
St Marks Avenue & Kingston Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston-Throop Avs, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingston Av/Prospect Pl, 230 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av/Prospect Pl B43
    230 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Kingston Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Kingston Ave 22 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2024

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
80 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1909.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and November 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kingston Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Kingston Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 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, 379 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1896 and 1903.

  1. Greater Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Designated landmark
    280 feet
  2. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Designated landmark
    560 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 8 schools
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 289 George V. Brower School
    370 feet
  2. Arista Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
  3. Creative Learning Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
Show all 10
  1. Lighthouse Early Learning Center School
    1,050 feet
  2. Academy for Health Careers School
    1,100 feet
  3. Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-Tech) School
    1,100 feet
  4. Uncommon New York City Charter School #1 School
    1,120 feet
  5. Achievement First Brooklyn High School
    1,270 feet
  6. Achievement First Charter School 11 School
    1,270 feet
  7. Uncommon Charter High School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. St. Mark's Playground
    350 feet
  2. Brower Park
    370 feet
  3. Brower Park Playground
    590 feet
Show all 4
  1. St. Andrew's Playground
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    510 feet
  2. Brower Park Library
    770 feet
  3. Brooklyn Children's Museum
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Church of God in Christ Landmark
    730 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 196 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    1,050 feet
  2. Older adult center at 230 Kingston Avenue Older adult center
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kingston 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.