Willoughby Avenue & Lewis Avenue

Willoughby Avenue and Lewis Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 187 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Lewis Playground is 70 feet away, and the Engine 217 firehouse is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, Myrtle Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the J, M and Z. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Myrtle Av
1,200 feet · 5 min on foot · J, M, Z
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Lewis Av/Willoughby Av · B15
Within a walk
18 places
6 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Willoughby Avenue & Lewis Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Myrtle Av, 1,200 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Myrtle Av J, M, Z
    1,200 feet
    J M Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
3 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
  3. Z …
Manhattan
3 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
  3. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Flushing Av J, M
    0.4 miles
    J M

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Jammin' Under the EL” (1999) by Verna Hart at the Myrtle Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lewis Av/Willoughby Av, 100 feet away, for the B15.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lewis Av/Willoughby Av B15
    100 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Willoughby Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Myrtle Ave & Lewis Ave 23 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Borinquen Place, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1199 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 7 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 187 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,647th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 124 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
36
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 4,700 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 1951 and 1976.

Since 2014 at least 151 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the river birch.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2020 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Lewis Avenue

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

West side of Lewis Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Willoughby Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Willoughby Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School
    280 feet
  2. Brighter Choice Community School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lewis Playground
    70 feet
  2. Senior Garden - Roosevelt Houses (NYCHA ) Garden
    590 feet
  3. John the Baptist Community Garden
    970 feet
Show all 6
  1. Eleanor Roosevelt Playground
    1,100 feet
  2. Beattie Square
    1,140 feet
  3. Miraflores Community Garden
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John the Baptist RC Church House of worship
    310 feet
  2. Beth Shalom Eh Congregation House of worship
    720 feet
  3. Brooklyn Temple Seventh Day Adventist Church House of worship
    960 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Roosevelt Community Center
    1,130 feet
  2. Older adult center at 400 Hart Street Older adult center
    1,130 feet
  3. Community center at 303 Vernon Avenue Community center
    1,200 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 217 Fire station
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    790 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  3. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Lewis Avenue or Willoughby Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.