Albany Avenue & Midwood Street

Albany Avenue and Midwood Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Horeb 7 Day Adventist Church is 880 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Albany Av/Midwood St, is 110 feet away for the B12, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Albany Av/Midwood St · B12
Within a walk
13 places
5 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albany Avenue & Midwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Albany Av/Midwood St, 110 feet away, for the B12.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Albany Av/Midwood St B12
    110 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Maple St & Albany Ave 19 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
38 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1968.

Since 2014 at least 23 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'City Sprite' zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Midwood Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Midwood Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 091 the Albany Avenue School
    420 feet
  2. League School
    970 feet
  3. Bnos Menachem School · school-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hamilton Metz Field
    580 feet

Health care

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

Houses of worship

  1. Horeb 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    880 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 720 East New York Avenue Older adult center
    760 feet
  2. Older adult center at 483 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and seven 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 Midwood Street.

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.