Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

East of Prospect Park, Prospect Lefferts Gardens extends from Empire Boulevard to Clarkson Avenue between Ocean and New York Avenues, and Wingate continues east to Troy Avenue.

  • 0.86 square miles
  • 49,513 residents, 2020 Census
  • 125 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 14 bus routes

In 1893 James Lefferts split his family's estate into 600 lots, now Lefferts Manor, with deed rules requiring single-family brick or stone houses of at least two stories, and the manor became a city historic district in 1979; the family's 18th-century farmhouse was moved into Prospect Park in 1918. The name Prospect Lefferts Gardens, coined in 1968, combines Prospect Park, Lefferts Manor and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, while Wingate takes its name from Wingate Park and a former high school.

Sources: Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Lefferts Historic House (Prospect Park Alliance); Wingate, Brooklyn (Wikipedia).

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Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate borders five areas, and Maple Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 15 of 125.

Street map of Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn, outlined among Crown Heights (South), East Flatbush-Rugby, East Flatbush-Erasmus and Prospect Park, with its four subway stations and Wingate Park.Crown Heights (South)East Flatbush-RugbyEast Flatbush-ErasmusFlatbushProspect Park
  • Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Sterling St lines 2 5
  • Prospect Park lines B Q S accessible
  • Winthrop St lines 2 5
  • Parkside Av lines Q

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 14 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B12
  • B16
  • B17
  • B41
  • B43
  • B44
  • B44-SBS
  • B46
  • B46-SBS
  • B48
  • B49
  • B96
  • B116
  • T464

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,801 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 14.4 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 7 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 63 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
53
Accessible pedestrian signals
23
Turn calming
10
Safety Improvement Projects
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than bus-lane or red-light tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 28,125 school-zone speed camera tickets at 12 corners
  • 3,543 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners
Most speed tickets
Flatbush Avenue & Ocean Avenue, 19,210
Most bus-lane tickets
Utica Avenue & Rutland Road, 3,274

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 49,513 residents in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, about 57,600 per square mile.

  • 21,109 homes, 2020 Census
  • 3,347 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,579 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 79% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
10.8 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Wingate Park (5.7 acres), Hamilton Metz Field (2.3 acres) and Winthrop Playground (1.3 acres)
Historic districts
Chester Court, Melrose Parkside, Ocean on the Park and Prospect Lefferts Gardens, wholly or partly within Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate

Streets and trees

Trees
3,071 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Maple Street, with 15 of the area's 125
Height above sea level
From 29 feet at Troy Avenue & Rutland Road to 83 feet at Flatbush Avenue & Ocean Avenue
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 25 schools and one library in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate.

Public schools
12
Charter and private schools
13
Library
Crown Heights Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 30 bike-share stations stand in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate.

  • 30 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 422 major felonies at places in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate

  • 288 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,785 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, the NYPD recorded another 227 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 13.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate.

Police precinct
71st
Major felonies recorded at places in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 194 major felonies at places in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, against 188 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.