Lexington Avenue & Throop Avenue

Lexington Avenue and Throop Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Philips Christian Church is 900 feet away, and Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn is 1,020 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Throop Av/Greene Av, is 380 feet away for the B43, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
22 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
1.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Throop Av/Greene Av · B43
Within a walk
21 places
9 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lexington Avenue & Throop Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Throop Av/Greene Av, 380 feet away, for the B43.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Throop Av/Greene Av B43
    380 feet
    B43

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Throop Avenue.

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Greene Ave & Throop Ave 19 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1381 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 775 Lafayette Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017
  • Turn calming, April 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11221
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
79
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 96 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lexington Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 5AM-6PM

South side of Lexington Avenue

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

East side of Throop Avenue

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

West side of Throop 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 21 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 park
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. Glorious and Gifted Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    90 feet
  2. Bedford Stuyvessant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    690 feet
  3. P.S. 044 Marcus Garvey School
    1,020 feet
Show all 8
  1. Sunshine Nursery & Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    730 feet
  2. Sunshine Nursery and Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    730 feet
  3. Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn School
    1,020 feet
  4. Talmud Torah D'Nitra School
    1,070 feet
  5. Co-Op School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. First Quincy Street Community Garden
    820 feet
  2. Hattie Carthan Herban Farm Garden
    930 feet
  3. Herbert Von King Park
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Philips Christian Church House of worship
    900 feet

Fire and police

  1. 79th Precinct Police station
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    550 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,220 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lexington Avenue or Throop 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.