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How walkable is Crown Heights?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Crown Heights has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 1.1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the 5th most walkable of 5 neighbourhoods ranked in Brooklyn, which scores 92 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
1,397 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Crown Heights. The nearest grocery is Kahan's Superette, about 3 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, schools, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
- Kol Tuv Grocery5 min
- Kollel Food Inc7 min
- Noribar2 min
- Holesome Bagels2 min
- Raskin's Fish Market2 min
- Oraita Inc2 min
- Daughter8 min
- Jenny's10 min
- Bank of America Financial Center5 min
- Apple Bank7 min
- Marc and Jason's Playground12 min
- Brower Park12 min
- Little Flower Preparatory School and Day Care5 min
- Educational Inst Oholei Torah7 min
- The Levi Yitzchok Library3 min
- Kehot Publication Society6 min
- Bais Rivkah12 min
- Brooklyn Children's Museum15 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Crown Heights at 40.6675, -73.9436. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 55 street intersections per km², and blocks average 156 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 4%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Crown Heights
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.1 km around the centre of Crown Heights. Rings mark 550 m and 1.1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Brooklyn
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford–Stuyvesant | 1.8 km | 94 |
| Park Slope | 3.6 km | 96 |
| Downtown Brooklyn | 4.5 km | 100 |
| Brooklyn Heights | 5.4 km | 99 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Brooklyn page.
Questions about walking in Crown Heights
Is Crown Heights walkable?
Yes. Crown Heights in Brooklyn has a walkability score of 94 out of 100 across the 1.1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Crown Heights more walkable than the rest of Brooklyn?
Crown Heights is about as walkable as Brooklyn as a whole: it scores 94, against 92 for the 5 km around Brooklyn's centre. It ranks 5th of the 5 Brooklyn neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Brooklyn?
Of the 5 Brooklyn neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Downtown Brooklyn (100), Brooklyn Heights (99) and Park Slope (96).
How is the walkability score of Crown Heights calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Crown Heights it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 1.1 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.