[3] Automobile traffic flows in two directions: south of Grant Square, at Dean Street; and one-way northbound north of that location.

[4] Northbound and southbound bicycle lanes are painted on the avenue south of Grant Square.

[5] Bedford Avenue has the following New York City Subway stations: Bus service on Bedford Avenue is provided by the following: The many different building types common in Brooklyn are evident at some point on the avenue, from attached and detached single-family houses in Sheepshead Bay and Midwood, to brownstone rowhouses in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant and apartment buildings in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

In addition, the avenue passes through neighborhoods representative of Brooklyn's cultural and ethnic diversity.

African-American, Caribbean, West African, Hasidic, Latin American, Russian, and Polish neighborhoods are all found along the avenue.