Dumont Avenue & Essex Street

Dumont Avenue and Essex Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. East New York Middle School of Excellence is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
New Lots Av/Essex St · B15
Within a walk
17 places
6 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dumont Avenue & Essex Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Shepherd Av C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New Lots Av/Essex St, 420 feet away, for the B15.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av/Essex St B15
    420 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Dumont Avenue.

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. New Lots Ave & Ashford St 16 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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-New Lots
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 6 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
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

North side of Dumont Avenue

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

South side of Dumont Avenue

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

East side of Essex Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Essex Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. East New York Elementary School of Excellence School
    740 feet
  2. East New York Middle School of Excellence School
    740 feet
  3. Miles of Smiles Daycare Pre-K
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Elton Street Community Garden
    430 feet
  2. Linwood Playground
    810 feet
  3. Elton Playground
    950 feet
Show all 5
  1. 400 Montauk Community Garden
    1,020 feet
  2. Good Shepherds Community Group Garden
    1,070 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. New Lots Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gabriels RC Church House of worship
    490 feet

Fire and police

  1. 75th Precinct Police station
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    970 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 12 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 nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dumont Avenue or Essex Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.