Brooklyn Avenue & Winthrop Street

Brooklyn Avenue and Winthrop Street meet at a three-way junction 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. In 2025, 1,173 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Kings County Hospital Center is 290 feet away, and Darchai Menachem is 1,150 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
720 feet
New York Av/Winthrop St · B44, B96
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 2 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn 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 five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  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 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Winthrop St, 720 feet away, for the B44 and B96.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Winthrop St B44, B96
    720 feet
    B44 B96

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. B96 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    1,130 feet
  2. 395 Lenox Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 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.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,173 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 683rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 527 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
47 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 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 1948 and 1960.

Since 2014 at least 21 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the sweetgum.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and April 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Winthrop Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 397 Foster-Laurie School
    970 feet
  2. Darchai Menachem School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wingate Park
    140 feet
  2. Wingate Park Playground
    660 feet
  3. Rolph Henry Playground
    1,150 feet

Health care

  1. Kings County Hospital Center Hospital
    290 feet
  2. EMS Station 38 Ambulance station
    550 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of God of Prophecy House of worship
    910 feet
  2. St Gabriels Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Winthrop Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.