Troy Avenue & Lefferts Avenue

Troy Avenue and Lefferts Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Hamilton Metz Field is 820 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Troy Av/Empire Blvd, is 330 feet away for the B17, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them schools, and nine places to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
12 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Troy Av/Empire Blvd · B17
Within a walk
18 places
6 schools, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Troy Avenue & Lefferts Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Troy Av/Empire Blvd, 330 feet away, for the B17.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Troy Av/Empire Blvd B17
    330 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E New York Ave & Troy Ave 21 docks in all
    390 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40 and 41 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 52 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and May 2026, 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 parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Lefferts Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

East side of Troy Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Troy Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 field

Schools and child care

  1. Ed Inst-Oholei Torah-Troy Avenue School
    380 feet
  2. Bnos Menachem School · school-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    400 feet
  3. Uncommon Schools School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    520 feet
Show all 10
  1. P.S. 221 Toussaint L'Ouverture School
    600 feet
  2. Uncommon Ocean Hill CMS School
    600 feet
  3. Achievement First Crown Heights Charter School
    670 feet
  4. New Heights Middle School
    670 feet
  5. All My Children Day Care and Nursery Preschool
    730 feet
  6. Cheeryos Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet
  7. Cheeryos Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hamilton Metz Field
    820 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 483 Albany Avenue Older adult center
    790 feet
  2. Older adult center at 720 East New York Avenue Older adult center
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    970 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk 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 Lefferts Avenue or Troy Avenue.

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.