Stanley Avenue & Elton Street

Stanley Avenue and Elton Street 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. Boulevard Community Center is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about ten minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and two places to eat. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1960 and 1998, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
6 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Ashford St/Stanley Av · B6, B20, B84
Within a walk
4 places
1 community center, 1 listed historic place and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Stanley Avenue & Elton Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. New Lots Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ashford St/Stanley Av, 610 feet away, for the B6, B20 and B84.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …
  2. B20 …
  3. B84 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Erskine Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1939 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.8 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
    2.2 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

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
13 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1960 and 1998.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the 'Kwanzan' flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Elton Street

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

West side of Elton Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Stanley Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Stanley Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Health care

  1. Linden Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boulevard Houses Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Boulevard Community Center
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, 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 Elton 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.