Amboy Street & Lott Avenue

Amboy Street and Lott Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 165 Ida Posner is 160 feet away. The nearest subway, Saratoga Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1948, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
11 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Saratoga Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
820 feet
E 98 St/Lott Av · B15
Within a walk
13 places
10 religious buildings, 1 garden and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Amboy Street & Lott Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Saratoga Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Saratoga Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Chandelier” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Saratoga Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 98 St/Lott Av, 820 feet away, for the B15.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 98 St/Lott Av B15 · Shelter
    820 feet
    B15
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hegeman Ave & Amboy St 23 docks in all
    680 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1408 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, October 2018
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41 and 42 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1948.

Since 2014 at least 181 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Amboy Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Amboy Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Lott Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Lott Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 165 Ida Posner School
    160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gethsemane Garden
    1,050 feet

Health care

  1. Schulman and Schachne Institute for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congrectional El Verbo Church House of worship
    270 feet
  2. New Life Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    540 feet
  3. Peoples Baptist Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Amboy Street or Lott 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.