Kingston Avenue & Lefferts Avenue

Kingston Avenue and Lefferts Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Barbara Simmons Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bnos Chomesh Academy is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, Kingston Av, is about nine minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
15 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kingston Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
740 feet
Empire Blvd/Lamont Ct · B43
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 6 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kingston Avenue & Lefferts Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kingston Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kingston Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
Outbound
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Lamont Ct, 740 feet away, for the B43.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Lamont Ct B43
    740 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kingston Ave & E New York Ave 21 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2024

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
53 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Barbara Simmons Way, a co-naming enacted on June 24, 2017 (Local Law 110 of 2017).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1938.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Barbara Simmons Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kingston Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Kingston Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Lefferts Avenue

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

South side of Lefferts Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 308043 and 336323.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 field
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Bnos Chomesh Academy School
    920 feet
  2. Beth Rivkah School
    960 feet
  3. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    960 feet
Show all 7
  1. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    1,210 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  3. League School
    1,270 feet
  4. P.S. 091 the Albany Avenue School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hamilton Metz Field
    460 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Horeb 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    640 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 483 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    100 feet

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 Kingston 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.