Bedford Avenue & Lefferts Avenue

Bedford Avenue and Lefferts Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 372 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Sunday School and Chapel of Grace Reformed Church stands 100 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about six minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S.

Safety record
15 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Bedford Av/Lefferts Av · B49
Within a walk
5 places
2 listed historic places, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Lefferts Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.3 miles
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Lefferts Av, 120 feet away, for the B49.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Lefferts Av B49
    120 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sterling St & Bedford Ave 19 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 6 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019
  • Turn calming, February 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 372 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,356th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 174 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
65 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 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 MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Lefferts Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Lefferts Avenue

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 345 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1905 and 1910.

  1. The Sunday School and Chapel of Grace Reformed Church Designated landmark
    100 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. The Hollow Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    810 feet
  2. Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush Landmark
    190 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Lefferts Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.