Willoughby Avenue & Emerson Place

Willoughby Avenue and Emerson Place meet at a four-way crossing in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Pratt Row Houses, one of four Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 90 feet away, and Star Spangled Playground is 980 feet away. The nearest subway, Classon Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them playgrounds, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Classon Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Classon Av/Willoughby Av · B48
Within a walk
14 places
4 playgrounds, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Willoughby Avenue & Emerson Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Classon Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Classon Av G
    0.3 miles
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    0.5 miles
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Classon Av/Willoughby Av, 480 feet away, for the B48.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Classon Av/Willoughby Av B48
    480 feet
    B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Willoughby Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Emerson Pl & Myrtle Ave 63 docks in all
    510 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 184 Classon Avenue Gas station
    1,070 feet
  2. 325 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, August 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Clinton Hill
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 46 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

East side of Emerson Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Emerson Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Willoughby Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Willoughby Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are four Individual Landmarks, and 33 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Colonial Revival. They were mostly built in 1907.

  1. Pratt Row Houses Designated landmark
    90 feet
  2. M. H. Renken Dairy Company (Office Building) Designated landmark
    570 feet
  3. M. H. Renken Dairy Company (Engine Room Building) Designated landmark
    570 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ohel Elozer School
    510 feet
  2. Pratt Institute College · listed historic place
    740 feet
  3. Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (Bcam) School
    1,160 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service School
    1,160 feet
  2. Billy Martin Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pratt Playground
    70 feet
  2. Myrtle Village Green Garden
    900 feet
  3. Star Spangled Playground
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Taaffe Playground
    1,020 feet
  2. Classon Playground
    1,240 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Myrtle Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marys Episcopal Church Landmark · listed historic place
    300 feet

Fire and police

  1. 88th Precinct Police station
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Emerson Place or Willoughby 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.