East 37th Street & Lenox Road

East 37th Street and Lenox Road meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mount Zion Church of God is 880 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Clarkson Av/Kings County Hospital, is 750 feet away for the B12, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
1.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
750 feet
Clarkson Av/Kings County Hospital · B12
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 hospitals and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 37th Street & Lenox Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clarkson Av/Kings County Hospital, 750 feet away, for the B12.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clarkson Av/Kings County Hospital B12
    750 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clarkson Ave & E 37 St 22 docks in all
    480 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 395 Lenox Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,020 feet
  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.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Erasmus
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 62 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 37th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of East 37th Street

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • Doctor plates only 4 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Lenox Road

  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY
  • Back-in parking only 10 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • Doctor plates only 2 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Electric vehicle charging only 2 signs ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING ONLY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 hospitals
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. The Children's Center at SUNY Brooklyn Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    360 feet
  2. SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Univ. College
    680 feet
  3. P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School
    820 feet

Health care

  1. University Hospital of Brooklyn Hospital
    680 feet
  2. EMS Station 38 Ambulance station
    890 feet
  3. Kings County Hospital Center Hospital
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Zion Church of God Listed historic place
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and five food stores.

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 37th Street or Lenox Road.

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