Brooklyn Avenue & Maple Street

Brooklyn Avenue and Maple Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bnos Chomesh Academy is 410 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and five places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
New York Av/Midwood St · B44
Within a walk
20 places
8 religious buildings, 7 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Maple Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sterling 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/Midwood St, 900 feet away, for the B44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Midwood St B44
    900 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Maple Street.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Lefferts Ave 20 docks in all
    530 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 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
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 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
39 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 19 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

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

North side of Maple Street

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

South side of Maple Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    320 feet
  2. Bnos Chomesh Academy School
    410 feet
  3. Beth Rivkah School
    550 feet
Show all 9
  1. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    550 feet
  2. Darchai Menachem School
    830 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
  4. Children's Paradise Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
  5. P.S. 397 Foster-Laurie School
    1,170 feet
  6. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wingate Park
    570 feet
  2. Wingate Park Playground
    580 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights Library
    760 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of God of Prophecy House of worship
    470 feet
  2. Horeb 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    790 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,240 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.