Bedford Avenue & Winthrop Street

Bedford Avenue and Winthrop Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Winthrop Playground is 420 feet away, and P.S. 092 Adrian Hegeman is 1,090 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about seven 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 23 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Bedford Av/Winthrop St · B49
Within a walk
16 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Winthrop Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Winthrop St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.3 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
    0.3 miles
    Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Winthrop St, 40 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Fenimore St 20 docks in all
    560 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. 2193 Bedford 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 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 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
61 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 1926 and 1941.

Since 2014 at least 68 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Winthrop Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Winthrop Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 108 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical, and mostly built between 1906 and 1915.

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
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. High Definition Kids Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    90 feet
  2. Hawthorne Corners Day Care Center Pre-K
    280 feet
  3. City-Pro Group, Inc. - Bedford Ave School
    570 feet
Show all 9
  1. Blue Petals Utmost Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    460 feet
  2. Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    550 feet
  3. The David Foster Pre-School Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
  4. Achievement First Voyager Charter School
    1,090 feet
  5. P.S. 092 Adrian Hegeman School
    1,090 feet
  6. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Winthrop Playground
    420 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Boundary Increase Listed historic place
    1,090 feet
  2. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of the Evangel Listed historic place
    220 feet
  2. Bethany Gospel Chapel House of worship
    660 feet
  3. Bethanie SDA French Church House of worship
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    700 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 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 23 places to eat and seven 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 Winthrop 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.