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Crown Heights

Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Crown Heights
Crown Heights · Collin Knopp-Schwyn
The place

Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Crown Heights is bounded by Washington Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Ralph Avenue to the east, and Empire Boulevard to the south. It is about one mile (1.6 km) wide and two miles (3.2 km) long. Neighborhoods bordering Crown Heights include Prospect Heights to the west, Flatbush, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and East Flatbush to the south, Brownsville to the east, and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the north.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Crown Heights

Airports
LaGuardia (LGA), 13 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 15 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 19 km
  • Philadelphia → Crown Heights
    215 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · $21–29
  • Hartford → Crown Heights
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · $12–17
  • Albany → Crown Heights
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $10–14
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Crown Heights

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Crown Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe [http://www.nywatertaxi.com Water Taxi, at Fulton Ferry Landing, provides service from various points in Manhattan along the East River.
  • Get inThe Water Taxi has service between southern Manhattan and Red Hook, often used by customers of the Red Hook Ikea.

From Wikivoyage: Brooklyn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    67 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    563 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,629 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,635 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,760 km

If you know how people move in Crown Heights – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Crown Heights

Crown Heights is 3 km from Brooklyn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.