Lafayette Avenue & Stuyvesant Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Stuyvesant Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 289 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance is 300 feet away, and Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Kosciuszko St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the J. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kosciuszko St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Lafayette Av/Stuyvesant Av · B38
Within a walk
17 places
6 religious buildings, 6 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Stuyvesant Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kosciuszko St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kosciuszko St J
    0.3 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle Av J, M, Z
    0.4 miles
    J M Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Euphorbias” (2002) by Ronald Calloway at the Kosciuszko St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lafayette Av/Stuyvesant Av, 120 feet away, for the B38.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lafayette Av/Stuyvesant Av B38
    120 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lafayette Ave & Stuyvesant Ave 24 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 289 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,494th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 229 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
52 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

East side of Stuyvesant Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Stuyvesant Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

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
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School
    300 feet
  2. The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance School
    300 feet
  3. Whitelaw Reid Academy of Arts and Business School
    300 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 081 Thaddeus Stevens School
    590 feet
  2. Madiba Prep Middle School
    850 feet
  3. P.S. 026 Jesse Owens School
    850 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jesse Owens Playground
    420 feet
  2. Eleanor Roosevelt Playground
    570 feet
  3. Lafayette Playground
    960 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Antioch Baptist Church Landmark
    800 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Roosevelt Community Center
    990 feet
  2. Older adult center at 400 Hart Street Older adult center
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Lafayette Avenue or Stuyvesant Avenue.

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