Winthrop Street & Kingston Avenue

Winthrop Street and Kingston Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Wingate Park is 370 feet away, and Brooklyn Institute for Liberal Arts is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them schools. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 2012 and 2015, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
8 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
780 feet
Albany Av/Winthrop St · B12
Within a walk
7 places
3 schools, 1 ambulance station and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Winthrop Street & Kingston Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Winthrop St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Albany Av/Winthrop St, 780 feet away, for the B12.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Albany Av/Winthrop St B12 · Shelter
    780 feet
    B12
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Winthrop St & Albany Ave 21 docks in all
    720 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2022
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
38 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, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2012 and 2015.

Since 2014 at least 299 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Seventeen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2014 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kingston Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Kingston Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Winthrop Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO MEDICAL EXAMINERS OFFICE
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Institute for Liberal Arts School
    750 feet
  2. High School for Public Service: Heroes of Tomorrow School
    750 feet
  3. League School
    910 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wingate Park
    370 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 38 Ambulance station
    850 feet
  2. Kings County Hospital Center Hospital
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Horeb 7 Day Adventist Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS 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 is one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Kingston Avenue or Winthrop Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.