Bedford Avenue & Hawthorne Street

Bedford Avenue and Hawthorne Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Church of the Evangel is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about eight minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them day care or pre-K sites, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Bedford Av/Winthrop St · B49
Within a walk
16 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 5 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Hawthorne Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Winthrop St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkside Av Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Winthrop St, 270 feet away, for the B49.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Winthrop St B49
    270 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Fenimore St 20 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 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
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
62 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1921 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

North side of Hawthorne Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Hawthorne Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 256 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1898 and 1913.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Hawthorne Corners Day Care Center Pre-K
    120 feet
  2. Blue Petals Utmost Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    190 feet
  3. High Definition Kids Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    190 feet
Show all 8
  1. City-Pro Group, Inc. - Bedford Ave School
    300 feet
  2. Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    820 feet
  3. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    930 feet
  4. Lefferts Gardens Montessori School
    1,190 feet
  5. The David Foster Pre-School Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Winthrop Playground
    690 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Boundary Increase Listed historic place
    820 feet
  2. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    840 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of the Evangel Listed historic place
    100 feet
  2. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    390 feet
  3. Fenimore St United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,090 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bethanie SDA French Church House of worship
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    970 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,180 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and five food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Hawthorne Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.