Dumont Avenue & Eldert Lane

Dumont Avenue and Eldert Lane meet at a three-way junction in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 204 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home is 230 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Drew St/Dumont Av, is 600 feet away for the B14, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them nursing homes or hospices, and one place to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Drew St/Dumont Av · B14
Within a walk
8 places
2 nursing homes or hospices, 1 community center and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dumont Avenue & Eldert Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Drew St/Dumont Av, 600 feet away, for the B14.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Drew St/Dumont Av B14
    600 feet
    B14

Next buses at this stop

  1. B14 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Cross Bay Boulevard, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 640 Conduit Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    980 feet
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 204 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,625th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 125 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1997 and 2009.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dumont Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Dumont Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN 60 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Eldert Lane

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Colony South Brooklyn Houses Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Robert E. Venable Park
    1,310 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home Nursing home or hospice
    230 feet
  2. Brooklyn-Queens Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    840 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Pink Community Center
    1,160 feet
  2. Older adult center at 2702 Linden Boulevard Older adult center
    1,160 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 39/Engine 225/Ladder 107 Fire station
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    870 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Dumont Avenue or Eldert Lane.

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