Bedford Avenue & Rutland Road

Bedford Avenue and Rutland Road 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, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about eight minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them day care or pre-K sites, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Bedford Av/Rutland Rd · B49
Within a walk
15 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 5 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Rutland Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  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 …

Also within a walk

  1. Winthrop 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/Rutland Rd, 110 feet away, for the B49.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Rutland Rd B49
    110 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

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

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 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 May 2024.

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 1,600 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 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 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

West side of Bedford Avenue

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

North side of Rutland Road

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Rutland Road

  • 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, 538 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Renaissance, and mostly built between 1899 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Blue Petals Utmost Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    390 feet
  2. City-Pro Group, Inc. - Bedford Ave School
    450 feet
  3. Hawthorne Corners Day Care Center Pre-K
    700 feet
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  1. High Definition Kids Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet
  2. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    880 feet
  3. Collective Play Ground Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  4. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Winthrop Playground
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    270 feet
  2. Lefferts Manor Historic District Boundary Increase Listed historic place
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    440 feet
  2. Church of the Evangel Listed historic place
    650 feet
  3. Grace Reformed Church Flatbush House of worship
    910 feet
Show all 4
  1. Fenimore St United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and four 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 Rutland Road.

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.