Albany Avenue & Clarkson Avenue

Albany Avenue and Clarkson Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 38 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School is 700 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Albany Av/Clarkson Av, is 120 feet away for the B12, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
34 hurt
38 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Albany Av/Clarkson Av · B12
Within a walk
4 places
3 religious buildings and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albany Avenue & Clarkson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Albany Av/Clarkson Av, 120 feet away, for the B12.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Albany Av/Clarkson Av B12 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B12
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clarkson Ave & E 40 St 30 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    260 feet
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 38 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 34 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67 and 71 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
46 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 296 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 70 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and August 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Clarkson Avenue

  • Doctor plates only 9 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • Doctor plates only 2 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • Electric vehicle charging only 2 signs ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING ONLY
  • Farmers market 3 signs FARMERS MARKET ONLY JUNE 1 - NOV 30 WEDNESDAY 7AM-5PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 16 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School
    700 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Catherine of Genoa Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Albany Avenue or Clarkson Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.