New York Avenue & Hawthorne Street

New York Avenue and Hawthorne Street meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Gabriels Episcopal Church is 440 feet away, and Crown Heights Library is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
1,030 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
New York Av/Winthrop St · B44, B96
Within a walk
16 places
6 religious buildings, 3 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & Hawthorne Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Winthrop St, 1,030 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Winthrop St 2, 5
    1,030 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Winthrop St, 190 feet away, for the B44 and B96.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Winthrop St B44, B96
    190 feet
    B44 B96

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. B96 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    770 feet
  2. 395 Lenox Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 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.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
51 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 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 2019 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hawthorne Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Hawthorne Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

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.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Children's Paradise Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet
  2. P.S. 397 Foster-Laurie School
    690 feet
  3. Mary Bobb Learning Academy School
    820 feet
Show all 4
  1. Darchai Menachem School
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wingate Park
    770 feet
  2. Rolph Henry Playground
    800 feet
  3. Wingate Park Playground
    1,020 feet

Health care

  1. Kings County Hospital Center Hospital
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights Library
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gabriels Episcopal Church House of worship
    440 feet
  2. Church of God of Prophecy House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,250 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 11 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hawthorne 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.