East 48th Street & Lenox Road

East 48th Street and Lenox Road meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 135 Sheldon A. Brookner is 740 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Lenox Rd, is 630 feet away for the B46, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Utica Av/Lenox Rd · B46
Within a walk
12 places
6 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 48th Street & Lenox Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Lenox Rd, 630 feet away, for the B46.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utica Av/Lenox Rd B46
    630 feet
    B46

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clarkson Ave & Utica Ave 20 docks in all
    970 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2 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.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
35 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 82 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and May 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 48th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of East 48th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 135 Sheldon A. Brookner School
    740 feet
  2. Battalion Christian Academy School
    830 feet
  3. Edso Dental Assistant Training Cente Trade or language school
    1,280 feet
Show all 5
  1. Gan Academy - Linden School
    1,310 feet
  2. High Definition Kids Daycare Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Rugby Post Office
    460 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and 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 48th 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.