Albany Avenue & Rutland Road

Albany Avenue and Rutland Road meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Hamilton Metz Field is 840 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Albany Av/Rutland Rd, is 40 feet away for the B12, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Albany Av/Rutland Rd · B12
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 2 older adult centers and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albany Avenue & Rutland Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Albany Av/Rutland Rd, 40 feet away, for the B12.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Albany Av/Rutland Rd B12
    40 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. Maple St & Albany Ave 19 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2022

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
36 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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 1964.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 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

  • Ambulances and ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULANCE AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-3PM
  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Rutland Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Rutland Road

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 schools
  • 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
    690 feet
  2. League School
    710 feet
  3. Bnosmenachem School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hamilton Metz Field
    840 feet

Health care

  1. Dr Susan Smith McKinney Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    310 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 720 East New York Avenue Older adult center
    1,020 feet
  2. Older adult center at 483 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk 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 Rutland Road.

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.