Greene Avenue & Lewis Avenue

Greene Avenue and Lewis Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Antioch Baptist Church, Church House stands 360 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Lewis Av/Greene Av, is 120 feet away for the B15, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Lewis Av/Greene Av · B15
Within a walk
16 places
9 religious buildings, 5 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Greene Avenue & Lewis Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lewis Av/Greene Av, 120 feet away, for the B15.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lewis Av/Greene Av B15
    120 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lewis Ave & Greene Ave 23 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2026

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
50 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and December 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Greene Avenue

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

East side of Lewis Avenue

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

West side of Lewis Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Queen Anne. They were built between 1887 and 1893.

  1. Antioch Baptist Church, Church House Designated landmark
    360 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Ember Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation School
    890 feet
  2. P.S. 308 Clara Cardwell School
    890 feet
  3. Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School
    1,280 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance School
    1,280 feet
  2. Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jesse Owens Playground
    1,020 feet
  2. Senior Garden - Roosevelt Houses (NYCHA ) Garden
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Antioch Baptist Church Landmark
    410 feet
  2. Refuge Church of God House of worship
    540 feet
  3. St Mary Church of Christ House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Greene Avenue or Lewis 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.