Albany Avenue & Lefferts Avenue

Albany Avenue and Lefferts Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bnos Menachem is 760 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Albany Av/East New York Av, is 470 feet away for the B12, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
470 feet
Albany Av/East New York Av · B12
Within a walk
17 places
6 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albany Avenue & Lefferts Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Albany Av/East New York Av, 470 feet away, for the B12.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 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
    70 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. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five 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 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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
56 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 1925 and 1938.

Since 2014 at least 16 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 89 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

West side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Lefferts Avenue

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

South side of Lefferts Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 field

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 091 the Albany Avenue School
    590 feet
  2. Bnos Menachem School · school-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet
  3. United Lubavitch Yeshiva Pre-K
    900 feet
Show all 7
  1. United Lubavitcher Yeshiva School
    900 feet
  2. United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,130 feet
  3. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Troy Avenue School
    1,150 feet
  4. Uncommon Schools School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hamilton Metz Field
    60 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 483 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    170 feet
  2. Older adult center at 720 East New York Avenue Older adult center
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    880 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 Lefferts Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.