Lexington Avenue & Patchen Avenue

Lexington Avenue and Patchen Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Patchen Avenue Garden is 110 feet away, and P.O. Reinaldo Salgado Playground is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Kosciuszko St, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kosciuszko St
960 feet · 4 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
Gates Av/Patchen Av · B52
Within a walk
25 places
14 religious buildings, 8 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lexington Avenue & Patchen Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kosciuszko St, 960 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kosciuszko St J
    960 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Gates Av J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gates Av/Patchen Av, 640 feet away, for the B52.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Patchen Av B52
    640 feet
    B52

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lexington Ave & Patchen Ave 18 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8 Malcolm X Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 824 Lexington Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  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 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 103 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lexington Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 5AM-5PM

South side of Lexington Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Patchen Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 8 gardens
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School
    970 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Patchen Avenue Garden
    110 feet
  2. Garden of Angels Garden
    400 feet
  3. Gates Harvest Garden
    490 feet
Show all 9
  1. Citizens for a Better Community Garden
    860 feet
  2. Bedford Stuyvesant Community Garden (Lola Bryant Comm. Garden) Garden
    910 feet
  3. The People's Garden
    950 feet
  4. P.O. Reinaldo Salgado Playground
    1,000 feet
  5. Patrick Van Doren Pocket Park Garden
    1,070 feet
  6. Good Life Garden
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Stephens & St Martins Episcopal Church House of worship
    340 feet
  2. Rugged Cross Baptist Church Listed historic place
    790 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    940 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Lexington Avenue or Patchen 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.