East 40th Street & Lenox Road

East 40th 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. East Flatbush Ascend Charter School is 970 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Clarkson Av/Albany Av, is 630 feet away for the B12, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Clarkson Av/Albany Av · B12
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

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East 40th Street & Lenox Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clarkson Av/Albany Av, 630 feet away, for the B12.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clarkson Av/Albany Av B12
    630 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 40 St 30 docks in all
    480 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    990 feet
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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.

  • 7 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 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
49 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 1950.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 40th Street

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

West side of East 40th Street

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

North side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School
    290 feet
  2. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  3. East Flatbush Ascend Charter School
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Children's Center at SUNY Brooklyn Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Catherine of Genoa Church House of worship
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 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 nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 40th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.