New York Avenue & Rutland Road

New York Avenue and Rutland Road meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Darchai Menachem is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about six minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1926 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
New York Av/Fenimore St · B44
Within a walk
18 places
8 religious buildings, 4 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
New York Avenue & Rutland Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Winthrop St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six 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
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Fenimore St, 170 feet away, for the B44.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Maple St & New York Ave 23 docks in all
    570 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
    0.3 miles
  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
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 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
49 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1960.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 3 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

North side of Rutland Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Rutland Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Children's Paradise Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    100 feet
  2. Darchai Menachem School
    440 feet
  3. P.S. 397 Foster-Laurie School
    640 feet
Show all 6
  1. Mary Bobb Learning Academy School
    1,050 feet
  2. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Aca School
    1,210 feet
  3. All My Children Day Care & Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wingate Park
    680 feet
  2. Wingate Park Playground
    690 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Crown Heights Library
    650 feet

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 331 Hawthorne Street Older adult center
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 New York Avenue or Rutland Road.

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