Dumont Avenue & New Lots Avenue at Montauk Avenue

Dumont Avenue, New Lots Avenue and Montauk Avenue meet at a five-way junction in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. It is 40 feet to 400 Montauk Community Garden. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Dumont Av/Montauk Av · B15
Within a walk
20 places
10 religious buildings, 6 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dumont Avenue & New Lots Avenue at Montauk Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. New Lots Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Dumont Av/Montauk Av, 140 feet away, for the B15.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Dumont Av/Montauk Av B15
    140 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Dumont Avenue and New Lots Avenue.

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2797 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 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.

  • 2 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.

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
19 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dumont Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Dumont Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Montauk Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Montauk Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of New Lots Avenue

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

South side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Miles of Smiles Daycare Pre-K
    500 feet
  2. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers, 16 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet
  3. J.H.S. 218 James P. Sinnott School
    920 feet
Show all 9
  1. School for Classics High School
    920 feet
  2. Blake-Milford Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. East New York Elementary School of Excellence School
    980 feet
  4. East New York Middle School of Excellence School
    980 feet
  5. Achievement First Aspire Charter School
    1,260 feet
  6. P.S. 202 Ernest S. Jenkyns School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 400 Montauk Community Garden
    40 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gabriels RC Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and 13 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 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dumont Avenue, Montauk Avenue or New Lots Avenue.

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.