MacDonough Street & Lewis Avenue

MacDonough Street and Lewis Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Brownstone School is 360 feet away, and M.S. 035 Stephen Decatur is 360 feet away. The nearest subway, Utica Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the A and C. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Utica Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Lewis Av/Macdonough St · B15
Within a walk
15 places
5 religious buildings, 2 playgrounds and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
MacDonough Street & Lewis Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Utica Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Utica Av A, C
    0.3 miles
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Kingston-Throop Avs C
    0.4 miles
    C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Children's Cathedral” (1996) by Jimmy James Greene at the Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lewis Av/Macdonough St, 110 feet away, for the B15.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lewis Av/Macdonough St B15
    110 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lewis Ave & Decatur St 19 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1381 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 419 Stuyvesant Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1886 and 1910.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Lewis Avenue

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

North side of MacDonough Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of MacDonough Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 508 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1878 and 1892.

  1. Embury Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    390 feet
  2. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd Parish House & Sun. School Designated landmark
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Brownstone School
    360 feet
  2. M.S. 035 Stephen Decatur School · landmark
    360 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 462 Halsey Community Farm Garden
    460 feet
  2. Decatur Playground
    480 feet
  3. Fulton Park
    860 feet
Show all 5
  1. Robert Fulton Statue in Fulton Park Park feature
    1,100 feet
  2. El Shabazz Playground
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Macon Library Landmark
    380 feet
  2. Stuyvesant Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    500 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Lebanon Baptist Church Landmark
    360 feet
  2. St Philips Episcopal Anglican Church Landmark
    430 feet
  3. Gospel Temple Church of God House of worship
    740 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bethany Baptist Church House of worship
    980 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 214/Ladder 111 Fire station
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Lewis Avenue or MacDonough Street.

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