Stanley Avenue & Ashford Street

Stanley Avenue and Ashford Street meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Anabelle Alston-Diaz Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jerome Playground is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and two places to eat.

Safety record
22 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Ashford St/Stanley Av · B6, B20, B84
Within a walk
5 places
1 community center, 1 listed historic place and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Stanley Avenue & Ashford Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. New Lots Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ashford St/Stanley Av, 110 feet away, for the B6, B20 and B84.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ashford St/Stanley Av B6, B20, B84
    110 feet
    B6 B20 B84

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …
  2. B20 …
  3. B84 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet, all of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Warwick St & Hegeman Ave 14 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1939 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 22 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 March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Anabelle Alston-Diaz Way, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,700 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 1930 and 1953.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Anabelle Alston-Diaz Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Ashford Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Ashford Street

  • Back-in parking only 6 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Stanley Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Stanley Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 7 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 community center
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Jerome Playground
    910 feet

Health care

  1. Linden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boulevard Houses Listed historic place
    520 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Boulevard Community Center
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Farm Country Supermarket
    860 feet
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ashford Street or Stanley 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.