Washington Avenue & Crown Street

Washington Avenue and Crown Street meet at a three-way junction in Crown Heights (South), Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Botanic Garden is 100 feet away, and Jackie Robinson Playground is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, is about seven minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them schools, and three places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Washington Av/Montgomery St · B48
Within a walk
11 places
6 schools, 1 botanical garden and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Washington Avenue & Crown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College/Botanic Garden 2, 3, 4, 5, S
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 S
  2. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.5 miles
    B Q S

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “New York City Architectural Artifacts from the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum” (2004) by MTA Arts & Design Collaborative at the Eastern Pkwy-Brooklyn Museum station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Washington Av/Montgomery St, 270 feet away, for the B48.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Washington Av/Montgomery St B48
    270 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carroll St & Washington Ave 27 docks in all
    410 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 316 St Marks Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35
Police precinct
71 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Crown Heights (South); the corner is on the edge of the Prospect Park area
Elevation
115 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Crown Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Crown Street

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

East side of Washington Avenue

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1912 and 1917.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

  1. Jenkins Fountain Fountain by Isabel M. Kimball, 1930
    350 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 1 botanical garden
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Little Angel Day Care #3 Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    130 feet
  2. Clara Barton High School
    670 feet
  3. P.S. 241 Emma L. Johnston School
    930 feet
Show all 7
  1. Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment School
    1,190 feet
  2. Brooklyn School for Music & Theatre School
    1,190 feet
  3. International High School at Prospect Heights School
    1,190 feet
  4. The High School for Global Citizenship School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Botanic Garden Botanical garden · landmark
    100 feet
  2. Dr. Ronald McNair Park
    770 feet
  3. Jackie Robinson Playground
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Museum Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Crown Street or Washington Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.