Lafayette Avenue & Washington Avenue

Lafayette Avenue and Washington Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Clinton Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Orthodox Friends Meeting House stands 110 feet away, and Hollenback Community Garden is 1,130 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
70 feet · 1 min on foot · G
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Lafayette Av/Washington Av · B38, B93
Within a walk
14 places
5 religious buildings, 2 playgrounds and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lafayette Avenue & Washington Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 70 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    70 feet
    G

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Classon Av G
    0.3 miles
    G
  2. Clinton-Washington Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lafayette Av/Washington Av, 120 feet away, for the B38 and B93.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lafayette Av/Washington Av B38, B93
    120 feet
    B38 B93

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …
  2. B93 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Lafayette Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lafayette Ave & St James Pl 39 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 325 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1,000 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 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)
Clinton Hill
Elevation
79 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 89 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lafayette Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Lafayette Avenue

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

East side of Washington Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Washington Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Clinton Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 361 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1869 and 1885.

  1. Orthodox Friends Meeting House Designated landmark
    110 feet
  2. Graham Home for Old Ladies Designated landmark
    350 feet
  3. Pratt Institute: Higgins Hall Designated landmark
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 011 Purvis J. Behan School
    1,120 feet
  2. La Petite Colline Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,150 feet
  3. St Joseph's University - Main Campus College
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Underwood Park
    50 feet
  2. Underwood Park Playground
    60 feet
  3. Greene Playground
    590 feet
Show all 4
  1. Hollenback Community Garden
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Clinton Hill Library Landmark
    390 feet
  2. Clinton Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    430 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Emmanuel Baptist Church Landmark · listed historic place
    210 feet
  2. Cadman Memorial Church Landmark
    640 feet
  3. Queen All Saints Church House of worship
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Urban Market Supermarket
    700 feet
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    910 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and seven food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Lafayette Avenue or Washington 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 and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.