New Lots Avenue & Powell Street

New Lots Avenue and Powell Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. A Patch of Inspiration is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and one place to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
560 feet · 2 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
New Lots Av/Powell St · B15
Within a walk
11 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New Lots Avenue & Powell Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 560 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av L
    560 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Junius St 3
    0.4 miles
    3
  2. Livonia Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “16 Windows” (2007) by Eugenie Tung at the New Lots Av station.

Bus

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

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on New Lots Avenue and Powell Street.

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hegeman Ave & Powell St 16 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1868 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2018
  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
42
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2001 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 695 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2016 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 10PM-6AM ALL DAYS

East side of Powell Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

West side of Powell Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. Joyful Tots Daycare Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  2. Big Apple Stars Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,040 feet
  3. Adaptive Solutions Multi Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. A Patch of Inspiration Garden
    50 feet
  2. Green Valley Garden
    50 feet
  3. Brownsville Playground
    460 feet
Show all 4
  1. Veterans Triangle
    900 feet

Houses of worship

  1. United Missionary Baptist Church House of worship
    210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Brownsville Recreation Center
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    120 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    880 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along New Lots Avenue or Powell Street.

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.