Gates Avenue & Lewis Avenue

Gates Avenue and Lewis Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 494 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Ember Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation is 350 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Gates Av/Lewis Av, is 30 feet away for the B52, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Gates Av/Lewis Av · B52
Within a walk
21 places
9 religious buildings, 7 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gates Avenue & Lewis Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gates Av/Lewis Av, 30 feet away, for the B52.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Lewis Av B52 · Shelter
    30 feet
    B52
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lewis Ave & Madison St 23 docks in all
    580 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 775 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 494 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,192nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 245 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
65 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Lewis Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Lewis Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ember Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation School
    350 feet
  2. P.S. 308 Clara Cardwell School
    350 feet
  3. Cornerstone Day Care Center Pre-K
    780 feet
Show all 8
  1. Co-Op School
    960 feet
  2. Talmud Torah D'Nitra School
    1,080 feet
  3. La Cima Charter School
    1,090 feet
  4. M.S. 267 Math, Science & Technology School
    1,090 feet
  5. Uncommon Bed-Stuy East Charter School NYC School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Raymond Bush Playground
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stuyvesant Gardens I Listed historic place
    820 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Refuge Church of God House of worship
    420 feet
  2. St Mary Church of Christ House of worship
    470 feet
  3. Cornerstone Baptist Church Listed historic place
    600 feet
Show all 4
  1. Antioch Baptist Church House of worship
    990 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 562 Madison Street Older adult center
    670 feet
  2. Stuyvesant Gardens I Community Center
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    940 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Gates Avenue or Lewis Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.