Washington Avenue & Franklin Avenue

Washington Avenue and Franklin Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Prospect Park is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about three minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
900 feet · 3 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Washington Av/Empire Blvd · B43, B48
Within a walk
12 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 park features and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Washington Avenue & Franklin Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 900 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    900 feet
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Washington Av/Empire Blvd, 190 feet away, for the B43 and B48.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Washington Av/Empire Blvd B43, B48
    190 feet
    B43 B48

Next buses at this stop

  1. B43 …
  2. B48 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Washington Ave & Empire Blvd 27 docks in all
    230 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    720 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
74 feet above sea level

The streets

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

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 1925 and 1938.

Since 2014 at least 86 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 13 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival. They were mostly built between 1909 and 1912.

  1. Brooklyn Central Office, Bureau of Fire Communications Designated landmark
    390 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 park features
  • 2 schools
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    140 feet
  2. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    630 feet
  3. Ebbets Field Middle School
    1,020 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School
    1,020 feet
  2. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    700 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    730 feet
  3. Carousel in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Jackie Robinson Playground
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Historic House Museum
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    610 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Franklin Avenue or Washington 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.