Bedford Avenue & Midwood Street

Bedford Avenue and Midwood 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, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Sunday School and Chapel of Grace Reformed Church stands 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about seven minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Bedford Av/Maple St · B49
Within a walk
12 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Midwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.4 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 …

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, 180 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Maple St 23 docks in all
    250 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 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 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
64 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 5 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 5 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 Midwood Street

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

South side of Midwood Street

  • No parking 12 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, 610 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
    740 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Blue Petals Utmost Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    650 feet
  2. City-Pro Group, Inc. - Bedford Ave School
    710 feet
  3. Hawthorne Corners Day Care Center Pre-K
    950 feet
Show all 6
  1. High Definition Kids Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  2. Collective Play Ground Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
  3. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    10 feet
  2. Lefferts Manor Historic District Boundary Increase Listed historic place
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush Landmark
    650 feet
  2. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    700 feet
  3. Church of the Evangel Listed historic place
    910 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 249/Ladder 113 Fire station
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and five 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 Midwood 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.