Troy Avenue & Crown Street

Troy Avenue and Crown Street meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. United Lubavitcher Yeshiva is 830 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them day care or pre-K sites, and four places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
Troy Av/Montgomery St · B17
Within a walk
19 places
7 day care or pre-K sites, 6 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Troy Avenue & Crown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.4 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 Troy Av/Montgomery St, 220 feet away, for the B17.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Troy Av/Montgomery St B17
    220 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Crown St & Troy Ave 20 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11213
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South)
Elevation
90 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1920 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 24 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Crown Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Crown Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

East side of Troy Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Troy Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 337036.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Cheeryos Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    410 feet
  2. Cheeryos Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    410 feet
  3. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    500 feet
Show all 13
  1. Beis Chaya Muska School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    510 feet
  2. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Troy Avenue School
    570 feet
  3. United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    630 feet
  4. United Lubavitcher Yeshiva School
    830 feet
  5. United Lubavitch Yeshiva Pre-K
    830 feet
  6. Uncommon Schools School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    960 feet
  7. P.S. 221 Toussaint L'Ouverture School
    1,040 feet
  8. Uncommon Ocean Hill CMS School
    1,040 feet
  9. Bnos Menachem School
    1,250 feet
  10. All My Children Day Care and Nursery Preschool
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

See every intersection along Crown Street or Troy 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.