Shepherd Avenue & New Lots Avenue

Shepherd Avenue and New Lots Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Gabriels RC Church is 460 feet away, and New Lots Plaza is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
1,270 feet · 5 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
New Lots Av/Essex St · B15
Within a walk
17 places
7 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Shepherd Avenue & New Lots Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 1,270 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av 3
    1,270 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Shepherd Av C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New Lots Av/Essex St, 190 feet away, for the B15.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av/Essex St B15
    190 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on New Lots Avenue.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. New Lots Ave & Ashford St 16 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1249 Sutter Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.2 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 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 2 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and October 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of New Lots Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Shepherd Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Shepherd Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 pedestrian plaza

Schools and child care

  1. East New York Elementary School of Excellence School
    730 feet
  2. East New York Middle School of Excellence School
    730 feet
  3. Miles of Smiles Daycare Pre-K
    880 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linwood Playground
    750 feet
  2. 400 Montauk Community Garden
    770 feet
  3. Elton Playground
    890 feet
Show all 5
  1. Elton Street Community Garden
    930 feet
  2. Good Shepherds Community Group Garden
    1,060 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. New Lots Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Gabriels RC Church House of worship
    460 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    920 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 14 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along New Lots Avenue or Shepherd Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.