Winthrop Street & East 46th Street

Winthrop Street and East 46th Street meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Rutland Nursing Home is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Winthrop St, is 1,130 feet away for the B46 and B46 SBS, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

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Winthrop Street & East 46th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Winthrop St, 1,130 feet away, for the B46 and B46 SBS.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utica Av/Winthrop St B46, B46 SBS · Shelter
    1,130 feet
    B46 B46 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …
  2. B46 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Winthrop St & Schenectady Ave 21 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

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
31 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and August 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 46th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of East 46th Street

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

North side of Winthrop Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Health care

  1. Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Village Hospital
    830 feet
  2. Rutland Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

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.