Watkins Street & Lott Avenue

Watkins Street and Lott Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Abib Newborn is 560 feet away, and Brownsville Recreation Center is 1,220 feet away. The nearest subway, New Lots Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, four of them gardens, and two places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
New Lots Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
830 feet
Rockaway Av/Lott Av · B60
Within a walk
20 places
4 gardens, 4 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Watkins Street & Lott Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is New Lots Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. New Lots Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Rockaway Av 3
    0.5 miles
    3
  2. Junius St 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “16 Windows” (2007) by Eugenie Tung at the New Lots Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Av/Lott Av, 830 feet away, for the B60.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Av/Lott Av B60
    830 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Mother Gaston Blvd & Lott Ave 15 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 9701 Ditmas Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41 and 42 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1969 and 1986.

Since 2014 at least 301 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2021 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Lott Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Watkins Street

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

West side of Watkins Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 gardens
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Joyful Tots Daycare Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  2. P.S. 184 Newport School
    730 feet
  3. Adaptive Solutions- Hegeman School
    930 feet
Show all 7
  1. Big Apple Stars Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    980 feet
  2. Adaptive Solutions Multi Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet
  3. Mott Hall IV School
    1,160 feet
  4. P.S. 041 Francis White School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Abib Newborn Garden
    560 feet
  2. Veterans Triangle
    840 feet
  3. Floyd Patterson Ballfields Park
    890 feet
Show all 9
  1. Osborn Playground
    920 feet
  2. Brownsville Playground
    1,070 feet
  3. Green Valley Garden
    1,110 feet
  4. Newport Playground
    1,200 feet
  5. Newport Garden
    1,220 feet
  6. A Patch of Inspiration Garden
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. United Missionary Baptist Church House of worship
    900 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Brownsville Recreation Center
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lott Avenue or Watkins Street.

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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.