Brooklyn Avenue & Midwood Street

Brooklyn Avenue and Midwood Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Darchai Menachem is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, nine of them schools, and five places to eat. About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
5 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
New York Av/Midwood St · B44
Within a walk
20 places
9 schools, 6 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Midwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Winthrop St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Midwood St, 640 feet away, for the B44.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Lefferts Ave 20 docks in all
    790 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
    0.4 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 13 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 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
38 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2021 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 Midwood Street

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

South side of Midwood Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Darchai Menachem School
    570 feet
  2. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    580 feet
  3. Bnos Chomesh Academy School
    670 feet
Show all 11
  1. Children's Paradise Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    790 feet
  2. Beth Rivkah School
    810 feet
  3. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    810 feet
  4. P.S. 397 Foster-Laurie School
    920 feet
  5. Brooklyn Institute for Liberal Arts School
    1,120 feet
  6. High School for Public Service: Heroes of Tomorrow School
    1,120 feet
  7. League School
    1,220 feet
  8. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wingate Park
    310 feet
  2. Wingate Park Playground
    320 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights Library
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of God of Prophecy House of worship
    220 feet
  2. Horeb 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Midwood Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.