New Lots Avenue & Essex Street

New Lots Avenue and Essex Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Linwood Playground is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
New Lots Av/Essex St · B15
Within a walk
14 places
4 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New Lots Avenue & Essex Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av 3
    1,000 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3
  2. Shepherd Av C
    0.5 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New Lots Av/Essex St, 100 feet away, for the B15.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av/Essex St B15
    100 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on New Lots Avenue.

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. New Lots Ave & Ashford St 16 docks in all
    1,080 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 4 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and December 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Essex Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Essex Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 pedestrian plaza

Schools and child care

  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  2. East New York Elementary School of Excellence School
    1,000 feet
  3. East New York Middle School of Excellence School
    1,000 feet
Show all 4
  1. Miles of Smiles Daycare Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linwood Playground
    480 feet
  2. Elton Playground
    620 feet
  3. Elton Street Community Garden
    760 feet
Show all 5
  1. 400 Montauk Community Garden
    1,050 feet
  2. Family Community Garden Brooklyn Garden
    1,200 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. New Lots Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gabriels RC Church House of worship
    200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    640 feet
  2. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight 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 of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Essex Street or New Lots Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.