Dumont Avenue & New Lots Avenue

Dumont Avenue and New Lots Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. J.H.S. 218 James P. Sinnott is 780 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Dumont Av/Montauk Av · B15
Within a walk
20 places
9 religious buildings, 4 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dumont Avenue & New Lots 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, 30 feet away, for the B15.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Dumont Avenue.

  • 10 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, 1.4 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
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

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

South side of Dumont Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of New Lots Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers, 16 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    520 feet
  2. Miles of Smiles Daycare Pre-K
    640 feet
  3. J.H.S. 218 James P. Sinnott School
    780 feet
Show all 7
  1. School for Classics High School
    780 feet
  2. Blake-Milford Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  3. East New York Elementary School of Excellence School
    1,120 feet
  4. East New York Middle School of Excellence School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 400 Montauk Community Garden
    180 feet
  2. Cypress Hills Playground
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cypress Hills Community Center
    1,280 feet
  2. Older adult center at 475 Fountain Avenue Older adult center
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place 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 New Lots Avenue.

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