East 38th Street & Lenox Road

East 38th Street and Lenox Road meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Catherine of Genoa Church is 1,310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Clarkson Av/E 38 St, is 530 feet away for the B12, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Clarkson Av/E 38 St · B12
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 1 ambulance station and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 38th Street & Lenox Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clarkson Av/E 38 St, 530 feet away, for the B12.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clarkson Av/E 38 St B12
    530 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 597 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,040 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

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-Rugby
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 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 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 38th Street

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

West side of East 38th Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

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

Health care

  1. University Hospital of Brooklyn Hospital
    940 feet
  2. EMS Station 38 Ambulance station
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Zion Church of God Listed historic place
    930 feet
  2. St Catherine of Genoa Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and six 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 nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 38th 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.