New York Avenue & Lefferts Avenue

New York Avenue and Lefferts Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,035 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Marc And Jason's Playground is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Sterling St, is about four minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sterling St
1,060 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
New York Av/East New York Av · B44
Within a walk
19 places
7 religious buildings, 7 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & Lefferts Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sterling St, 1,060 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sterling St 2, 5
    1,060 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/East New York Av, 200 feet away, for the B44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/East New York Av B44
    200 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Maple St & New York Ave 23 docks in all
    590 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 415 Empire Boulevard Gas station
    760 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    270 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,035 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 744th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 648 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on New York Avenue734502
Eastbound on Lefferts Avenue301146
Total1,035648

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
49 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 1927 and 1952.

Since 2014 at least 19 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Bloodgood' London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lefferts Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Lefferts Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-10AM 3PM-5PM

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    200 feet
  2. Crown Multi-Educ SVCS Leffert School
    240 feet
  3. Beth Rivkah School
    640 feet
Show all 9
  1. Crown Multi-Educ Serv-Head Start School
    640 feet
  2. M.S. 061 Dr. Gladstone H. Atwell School
    670 feet
  3. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Aca School
    710 feet
  4. Chabad Girls Academy High School
    870 feet
  5. Children's Paradise Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    980 feet
  6. Bnos Chomesh Academy School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marc And Jason's Playground
    630 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights Library
    580 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth David David Gershon Shul House of worship
    760 feet

Fire and police

  1. 71st Precinct Police station
    830 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,320 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 16 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lefferts Avenue or New York Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.