Lafayette Avenue & Carlton Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Carlton Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Fort Greene Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Simon F. Rothschild Junior High School (J.H.S. 294) stands 390 feet away, and Compass Charter School is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, Fulton St, is about three minutes on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, three of them parks, and 48 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fulton St
870 feet · 3 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Lafayette Av/Carlton Av · B38
Within a walk
21 places
3 parks, 3 playgrounds and 10 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Carlton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fulton St, 870 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St G
    870 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Lafayette Av C
    960 feet
    C
  2. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    1,090 feet
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lafayette Av/Carlton Av, 100 feet away, for the B38.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Carlton Avenue and Lafayette Avenue.

  • 49 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. Cumberland St & Lafayette Ave 31 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.9 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
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2026

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
79 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Carlton Avenue

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

West side of Carlton Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 3 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 420 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1856 and 1868.

  1. Simon F. Rothschild Junior High School (J.H.S. 294) Designated landmark
    390 feet
  2. Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    420 feet
  3. Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church Designated landmark
    480 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

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

Schools and child care

  1. Compass Charter School
    480 feet
  2. M.S. 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center School
    480 feet
  3. Npower New York Trade or language school
    810 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
    1,070 feet
  2. La Petite Colline Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Edmonds Playground
    580 feet
  2. Cuyler Gore Park
    590 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bears/Carlton Avenue Garden
    660 feet
Show all 7
  1. Cuyler Gore Park Playground
    790 feet
  2. Fort Greene Park
    1,090 feet
  3. Albert L. Parham Playground
    1,120 feet
  4. Fowler Square
    1,130 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Fowler Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,130 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    970 feet
  2. Fort Greene Historic District Listed historic place
    1,000 feet
  3. General Edward Big Ned Fowler Monument Monument or memorial
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Queen All Saints Church House of worship
    760 feet
  2. Cadman Memorial Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Albert J Parham Playground Pool Swimming pool
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Urban Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 48 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

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