Union Street & Brooklyn Avenue

Union Street and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Marks Church Episcopal is 150 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, 18 of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
990 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Brooklyn Av/Union St · B43
Within a walk
28 places
18 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 990 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    990 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Nostrand Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3
  2. President St-Medgar Evers College 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brooklyn Av/Union St, 130 feet away, for the B43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brooklyn Av/Union St B43
    130 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Brooklyn Ave 21 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2026

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
100 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the American elm and the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Union Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Union Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 71 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1906 and 1909.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 18 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 museum

Schools and child care

  1. St Mark's Day School
    510 feet
  2. Oholei Torah Educational Institute School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    630 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool · Pre-K
    630 feet
Show all 7
  1. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Eastern Parkway School
    760 feet
  2. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    970 feet
  3. M a C a D E M Y School · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  4. Gan Academy School
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Eastern Parkway Listed historic place
    900 feet
  2. Jewish Children's Museum
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    150 feet
  2. Chabad Lubavitch World HQ House of worship
    790 feet
  3. St Gregory the Great RC Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,160 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and three 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 Union Street.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.