Bedford Avenue & Maple Street

Bedford Avenue and Maple Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bethany Gospel Chapel is 960 feet away, and Church of the Evangel is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about six minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Bedford Av/Maple St · B49
Within a walk
12 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 listed historic places and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Maple Street 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
    0.5 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/Maple St, 100 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue and Maple Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Maple St 23 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

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
65 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1908 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Maple Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Maple Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 615 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1899 and 1910.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Blue Petals Utmost Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
  2. City-Pro Group, Inc. - Bedford Ave School
    970 feet
  3. Hawthorne Corners Day Care Center Pre-K
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. High Definition Kids Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Street Community Garden
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    260 feet
  2. Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    1,270 feet
  3. Lefferts Manor Historic District Boundary Increase Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush Landmark
    390 feet
  2. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    960 feet
  3. Church of the Evangel Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 249/Ladder 113 Fire station
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and two 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 Maple 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.