Union Street & Kingston Avenue

Union Street and Kingston Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Chabad Lubavitch World HQ is 250 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about a minute on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 30 public places, 23 of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
370 feet · 1 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Kingston Av/Union St · B43
Within a walk
30 places
23 religious buildings, 5 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & Kingston Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 370 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.5 miles
    3 4
  2. Nostrand Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kingston Av/Union St, 100 feet away, for the B43.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av/Union St B43
    100 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eastern Pkwy & Kingston Ave 30 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 959 Sterling Place Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 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
101 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kingston Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8:30AM-7PM 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Kingston Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 9AM-7PM 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM

North side of Union Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Union Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 337691 and 340913.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 61 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1904 and 1909.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 public places.

  • 23 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 museum

Schools and child care

  1. Yeled Vyalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    650 feet
  2. Arista Prep School
    720 feet
  3. Chabad Girls Academy School
    830 feet
Show all 6
  1. Yeshiva Beis Chaya Mushka School
    840 feet
  2. Chanoch Lenaar School
    1,020 feet
  3. St Mark's Day School
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jewish Children's Museum
    470 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Chabad Lubavitch World HQ House of worship
    250 feet
  2. St Marks Church Episcopal House of worship
    710 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    520 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    990 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 12 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Kingston 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.