Albany Avenue & East New York Avenue

Albany Avenue and East New York Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 312 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Hamilton Metz Field is 50 feet away, and Dr Susan Smith McKinney Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is 1,100 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Albany Av/East New York Av, is 180 feet away for the B12. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places and six places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Albany Av/East New York Av · B12
Within a walk
16 places
5 religious buildings, 5 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albany Avenue & East New York Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Albany Av/East New York Av, 180 feet away, for the B12.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Albany Av/East New York Av B12
    180 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on East New York Avenue.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lefferts Ave & Albany Ave 24 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 21 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 312 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,445th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 200 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

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

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1940.

Since 2014 at least 19 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of East New York Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of East New York Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 field
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 091 the Albany Avenue School
    300 feet
  2. Bnos Menachem School · school-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    470 feet
  3. Achievement First Crown Heights Charter School
    1,110 feet
Show all 6
  1. New Heights Middle School
    1,110 feet
  2. United Lubavitch Yeshiva Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  3. United Lubavitcher Yeshiva School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hamilton Metz Field
    50 feet

Health care

  1. Dr Susan Smith McKinney Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Horeb 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,140 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 483 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    460 feet
  2. Older adult center at 720 East New York Avenue Older adult center
    550 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,160 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Albany Avenue or East New York Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.