Lafayette Avenue & Adelphi Street

Lafayette Avenue and Adelphi Street meet at a four-way crossing in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Fort Greene Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Chancery of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn stands 480 feet away, and M.S. 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center is 500 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about three minutes on foot, for the G. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, four of them playgrounds, and 39 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
820 feet · 3 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Lafayette Av/Carlton Av · B38
Within a walk
20 places
4 playgrounds, 3 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Adelphi Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 820 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    820 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

Queens
1 line
  1. G …
Southbound
1 line
  1. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Fulton St G
    1,140 feet
    G
  2. Lafayette Av C
    1,230 feet
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lafayette Av/Carlton Av, 180 feet away, for the B38.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lafayette Av/Carlton Av B38
    180 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Lafayette Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clermont Ave & Lafayette Ave 51 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 325 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
87 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Adelphi Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Adelphi Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Fort Greene Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 452 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1857 and 1871.

  1. Brooklyn Masonic Temple Designated landmark
    380 feet
  2. Simon F. Rothschild Junior High School (J.H.S. 294) Designated landmark
    400 feet
  3. Chancery of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    480 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 parks
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Compass Charter School
    500 feet
  2. M.S. 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center School
    500 feet
  3. Npower New York Trade or language school
    640 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
    800 feet
  2. La Petite Colline Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    880 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Edmonds Playground
    710 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bears/Carlton Avenue Garden
    730 feet
  3. Albert L. Parham Playground
    840 feet
Show all 8
  1. Cuyler Gore Park
    860 feet
  2. Cuyler Gore Park Playground
    1,060 feet
  3. Underwood Park
    1,150 feet
  4. Underwood Park Playground
    1,160 feet
  5. Fort Greene Park
    1,310 feet

Health care

  1. New Carlton Rehab and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Greene Historic District Listed historic place
    1,230 feet
  2. Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Queen All Saints Church Landmark
    490 feet
  2. Cadman Memorial Church House of worship
    760 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Albert J Parham Playground Pool Swimming pool
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Urban Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Adelphi Street or Lafayette Avenue.

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