Flatbush Avenue & Lefferts Avenue

Flatbush Avenue and Lefferts Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Willink Hill in Prospect Park is 610 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about a minute on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 28 places to eat. About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1938, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
12 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
390 feet · 1 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Flatbush Av/Lincoln Rd · B41
Within a walk
12 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Lefferts Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 390 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    390 feet
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Lincoln Rd, 320 feet away, for the B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Lincoln Rd B41
    320 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 36 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Flatbush Ave & Lincoln Rd 23 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    210 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
72 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1938.

Since 2014 at least 70 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (west side).

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Lefferts Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Lefferts Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 305130 and 331480.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 49 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Georgian. They were mostly built between 1909 and 1922.

  1. Brooklyn Central Office, Bureau of Fire Communications Designated landmark
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 park features
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    120 feet
  2. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    410 feet
  3. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    610 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    650 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Playground
    1,020 feet
Show all 4
  1. Carousel in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,140 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    650 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Historic House Museum
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Lefferts Avenue.

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