Brooklyn Avenue & Fenimore Street

Brooklyn Avenue and Fenimore Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 861 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Wingate Park is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, seven of them schools, and two places to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
720 feet
New York Av/Fenimore St · B44
Within a walk
18 places
7 schools, 6 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Fenimore Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Fenimore St, 720 feet away, for the B44.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Fenimore St B44
    720 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. New York Ave & Hawthorne St 20 docks in all
    940 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 861 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 855th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 358 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 31 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and April 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Fenimore Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Fenimore Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 397 Foster-Laurie School
    390 feet
  2. Darchai Menachem School
    570 feet
  3. Children's Paradise Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet
Show all 8
  1. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    1,100 feet
  2. Brooklyn Institute for Liberal Arts School
    1,120 feet
  3. High School for Public Service: Heroes of Tomorrow School
    1,120 feet
  4. Bnos Chomesh Academy School
    1,190 feet
  5. League School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wingate Park
    50 feet
  2. Wingate Park Playground
    90 feet

Health care

  1. Kings County Hospital Center Hospital
    870 feet
  2. EMS Station 38 Ambulance station
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of God of Prophecy House of worship
    340 feet
  2. St Gabriels Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Fenimore Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.