New York Avenue & Fenimore Street

New York Avenue and Fenimore Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 397 Foster-Laurie is 380 feet away, and Rolph Henry Playground is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
15 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
New York Av/Fenimore St · B44
Within a walk
16 places
7 religious buildings, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & Fenimore Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Winthrop St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Fenimore St, 110 feet away, for the B44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Fenimore St B44
    110 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. New York Ave & Hawthorne St 20 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    1,080 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1960.

Since 2014 at least 44 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Fenimore Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Fenimore Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Children's Paradise Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    360 feet
  2. P.S. 397 Foster-Laurie School
    380 feet
  3. Darchai Menachem School
    700 feet
Show all 4
  1. Mary Bobb Learning Academy School
    790 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wingate Park
    680 feet
  2. Wingate Park Playground
    720 feet
  3. Rolph Henry Playground
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights Library
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gabriels Episcopal Church House of worship
    490 feet
  2. Church of God of Prophecy House of worship
    970 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 331 Hawthorne Street Older adult center
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and eight 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fenimore Street or New York 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.