Schenectady Avenue & Lefferts Avenue

Schenectady Avenue and Lefferts Avenue 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. Uncommon Ocean Hill CMS is 660 feet away. The nearest subway, Crown Hts-Utica Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3 and 4. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1927 and 1940, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
6 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crown Hts-Utica Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3, 4
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Lefferts Av/Schenectady Av · B12
Within a walk
17 places
9 religious buildings, 6 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Schenectady Avenue & Lefferts Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crown Hts-Utica Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Crown Hts-Utica Av 3, 4
    0.4 miles
    3 4

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 3 …
  2. 4 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Good Morning and Good Night” (2004) by Hugo Consuegra at the Crown Hts-Utica Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lefferts Av/Schenectady Av, 50 feet away, for the B12.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lefferts Av/Schenectady Av B12
    50 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Lefferts Ave & Schenectady Ave 27 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
41
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are 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 1940.

Since 2014 at least 60 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Skyline' thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lefferts Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Lefferts Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery Preschool
    190 feet
  2. Uncommon Schools School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    560 feet
  3. P.S. 221 Toussaint L'Ouverture School
    660 feet
Show all 8
  1. Uncommon Ocean Hill CMS School
    660 feet
  2. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Troy Avenue School
    940 feet
  3. Achievement First Crown Heights Charter School
    980 feet
  4. New Heights Middle School
    980 feet
  5. Bnos Menachem School
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    440 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    600 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and seven 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 Schenectady 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.