page_title: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Prospect Lefferts Gardens / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance to en:Sterling Street (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line) subway station, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY.
context_page_description: Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a residential neighborhood in the Flatbush area of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The community is bounded by Empire Boulevard to the north, Clarkson Avenue to the south, New York Avenue to the east, and Ocean Avenue/Prospect Park to the west. Prospect Lefferts Gardens was designated a NYC Landmark area in 1979 and called the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District.
  The neighborhood contains an ethnically diverse community with a largely Caribbean-American and African-American population. Since the 2000s, Prospect Lefferts Gardens has been gentrifying quickly. Real estate development has increased and new residents from other groups have increased.
  Prospect Lefferts Gardens is part of Brooklyn Community District 9, and its primary ZIP Code is 11225. It is patrolled by the 71st Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 40th District.
context_section_description: Prospect Lefferts Gardens is serviced by the New York City Subway's B, ​Q, and ​S trains at the Prospect Park station and the Q train at the Parkside Avenue station (both on the BMT Brighton Line), as well as the Sterling Street and Winthrop Street stations on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line (2 and ​5 trains). Additionally, the B12, B16, B41, B43, B44, B44 SBS, B48, B49 New York City Bus routes serve the area.
caption: Sterling Street subway station in northern Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
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