East 45th Street & Lenox Road

East 45th Street and Lenox Road meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Battalion Christian Academy is 1,090 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Lenox Rd, is 0.3 miles away for the B46, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Utica Av/Lenox Rd · B46
Within a walk
9 places
5 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 45th Street & Lenox Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Lenox Rd, 0.3 miles away, for the B46.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utica Av/Lenox Rd B46
    0.3 miles
    B46

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lenox Rd & E 43 St 21 docks in all
    580 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
41
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
42 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

East side of East 45th Street

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

West side of East 45th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

North side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Gan Academy - Linden School
    510 feet
  2. High Definition Kids Daycare Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    510 feet
  3. Battalion Christian Academy School
    1,090 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Rugby Post Office
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and two 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 45th 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.