Vandervoort Avenue & Lombardy Street

Vandervoort Avenue and Lombardy Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sgt. William Dougherty Playground is 330 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cherry St/Vandervoort Av, is 540 feet away for the B24, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and one place to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1910 and 1928, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
2 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Cherry St/Vandervoort Av · B24
Within a walk
1 place
1 playground, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Vandervoort Avenue & Lombardy Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cherry St/Vandervoort Av, 540 feet away, for the B24.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cherry St/Vandervoort Av B24
    540 feet
    B24

Next buses at this stop

  1. B24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Morgan Ave & Lombardy St 30 docks in all
    530 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Varick Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 546 Morgan Avenue Gas station
    880 feet
  2. 1074 Grand Street Charging for electric cars, four fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11222
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Williamsburg
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1910 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lombardy Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Lombardy Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Vandervoort Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Vandervoort Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sgt. William Dougherty Playground
    330 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    780 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lombardy Street or Vandervoort 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.