Lafayette Avenue & South Oxford Street

Lafayette Avenue and South Oxford Street meet at a four-way crossing in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of 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. Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church stands 170 feet away. The nearest subway, Fulton St, is about a minute on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, five of them parks, and 41 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fulton St
330 feet · 1 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Lafayette Av/South Portland Av · B38
Within a walk
27 places
5 parks, 4 schools and 11 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & South Oxford Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fulton St, 330 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fulton St G
    330 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
    480 feet
    C
  2. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    0.3 miles
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lafayette Av/South Portland Av, 170 feet away, for the B38.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lafayette Av/South Portland Av B38
    170 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Lafayette Avenue.

  • 79 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 4 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cumberland St & Lafayette Ave 31 docks in all
    310 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. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 625 Atlantic Avenue Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 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 London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Lafayette Avenue

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

East side of South Oxford Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of South Oxford Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Fort Greene Historic District.

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 388 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1856 and 1868.

  1. Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church Designated landmark
    170 feet
  2. Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    280 feet
  3. Hanson Place Baptist Church Designated landmark
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 5 parks
  • 4 schools
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 9 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Dental Auxiliary Training Center Trade or language school
    890 feet
  2. Compass Charter School
    1,020 feet
  3. M.S. 113 Ronald Edmonds Learning Center School
    1,020 feet
Show all 6
  1. Brooklyn Independent School
    1,030 feet
  2. The International Charter School of New York Annex School
    1,040 feet
  3. Hanson Place Child Development Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fowler Square
    590 feet
  2. Cuyler Gore Park
    680 feet
  3. MoCADA Ubuntu Garden
    870 feet
Show all 11
  1. Betty Carter Park
    880 feet
  2. Cuyler Gore Park Playground
    880 feet
  3. Fort Greene Park
    920 feet
  4. Fort Greene Park Playground
    1,070 feet
  5. Edmonds Playground
    1,120 feet
  6. Greene Garden
    1,170 feet
  7. Brooklyn Bears/Carlton Avenue Garden
    1,190 feet
  8. South Oxford Park
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Fowler Square Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    590 feet
  2. Public space at 620 Fulton Street Public space
    1,310 feet

Health care

  1. Oxford Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    430 feet
  2. General Edward Big Ned Fowler Monument Monument or memorial
    560 feet
  3. Fort Greene Historic District Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Brooklyn Academy of Music Arts or cultural center · listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Queen All Saints Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Urban Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    1,210 feet
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lafayette Avenue or South Oxford Street.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.