Lefferts Avenue & Balfour Place

Lefferts Avenue and Balfour Place meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start is 350 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1926 and 1952, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av · B43
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 5 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lefferts Avenue & Balfour Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av, 540 feet away, for the B43.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Empire Blvd/Brooklyn Av B43
    540 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Lefferts Ave 20 docks in all
    200 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1,080 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1952.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Balfour Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Balfour Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Lefferts Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 field
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Beth Rivkah School
    350 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    350 feet
  3. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    600 feet
Show all 6
  1. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    620 feet
  2. Bnos Chomesh Academy School
    750 feet
  3. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    880 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hamilton Metz Field
    1,070 feet
  2. Wingate Park
    1,300 feet
  3. Wingate Park Playground
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Church of God of Prophecy House of worship
    1,190 feet
  2. Horeb 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    510 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Balfour Place or Lefferts Avenue.

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