Lenox Road & East 39th Street

Lenox Road and East 39th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School is 290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Clarkson Av/E 39 St, is 580 feet away for the B12, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
Clarkson Av/E 39 St · B12
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lenox Road & East 39th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clarkson Av/E 39 St, 580 feet away, for the B12.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clarkson Av/E 39 St B12 · Shelter
    580 feet
    B12
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clarkson Ave & E 40 St 30 docks in all
    700 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 597 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    780 feet
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
49 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1945.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 39th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of East 39th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Lenox Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 hospital

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School
    290 feet
  2. The Children's Center at SUNY Brooklyn Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  3. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet
Show all 5
  1. SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Univ. College
    1,200 feet
  2. East Flatbush Ascend Charter School
    1,230 feet

Health care

  1. University Hospital of Brooklyn Hospital
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Catherine of Genoa Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
  2. Mount Zion Church of God Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 39th Street or Lenox Road.

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.