Georgia Avenue & New Lots Avenue

Georgia Avenue and New Lots Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Georgia Avenue Community Garden is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
New Lots Av/Georgia Av · B15
Within a walk
17 places
9 religious buildings, 5 gardens and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Georgia Avenue & New Lots Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Pennsylvania Av 3
    0.3 miles
    3
  2. Livonia Av L
    0.5 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “16 Windows” (2007) by Eugenie Tung at the New Lots Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New Lots Av/Georgia Av, 110 feet away, for the B15.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av/Georgia Av B15
    110 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on New Lots Avenue.

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Georgia Ave & New Lots Ave 16 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1868 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
24 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 1930.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 82 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Kentucky coffeetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Georgia Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Georgia Avenue

  • Farmers market 1 sign FARMERS MARKET ONLY JULY 1 - OCT 31 WEDNESDAY 12:30PM-6:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 5 gardens
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    490 feet
  2. Legacy School of the Arts School
    610 feet
  3. P.S. 190 Sheffield School
    610 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hands & Heart (New Lots Urban Farm) Garden
    50 feet
  2. Georgia Avenue Community Garden
    110 feet
  3. Sheffield Garden
    770 feet
Show all 5
  1. Prophecy Garden
    900 feet
  2. Positive Seeds of Life Garden
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    450 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Georgia Avenue or New Lots Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.