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

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.
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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 Heights215 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · $21–29
- Hartford → Crown Heights104 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · $12–17
- Albany → Crown Heights113 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $10–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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Next door to Crown Heights
Crown Heights is 3 km from Brooklyn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.