Canarsie

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Between Paerdegat Basin and Fresh Creek in southeastern Brooklyn, Canarsie lies inland from the parkland of Canarsie Park and Canarsie Pier on Jamaica Bay.

  • 2.53 square miles
  • 89,932 residents, 2020 Census
  • 439 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 10 bus routes

Its name adapts a Lenape word for a fenced area, and after a railroad from East New York to Canarsie Landing opened in 1865, it began turning into a summer beach resort. Large-scale home building came only after World War II, and most new residents in the 1990s came from the Caribbean and the West Indies. The L train ends at Canarsie-Rockaway Parkway near the neighborhood's northern end, and the Canarsie Library on Rockaway Parkway grew from a 1909 deposit station.

Sources: Canarsie, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Canarsie Library (Brooklyn Public Library); Canarsie Pier (National Park Service).

Map

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Canarsie borders seven areas, and Flatlands Avenue and Glenwood Road hold more of its corners than any other street, 34 each of 439.

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  • Canarsie
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy lines L accessible

Getting around

One subway station and buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Canarsie.

  • 1 subway station
  • 1 listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 9 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • B6
  • B17
  • B42
  • B47
  • B60
  • B82
  • B82-SBS
  • B103
  • T426

Express bus route

  • BM2

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 3,940 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 9.0 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 49 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 58 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
36
Accessible pedestrian signals
23
Turn calming
13
Enhanced crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 2,805 red-light camera tickets at four corners
  • 70,527 school-zone speed camera tickets at 42 corners
  • 588 bus-lane camera tickets at one corner
Most red-light tickets
Rockaway Parkway & Seaview Avenue, 1,995
Most speed tickets
Rockaway Parkway & Schenck Street, 14,484
Most bus-lane tickets
Rockaway Parkway & Conklin Avenue, 588

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 89,932 residents in Canarsie, about 35,500 per square mile.

  • 31,020 homes, 2020 Census
  • 251 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 11,974 residential lots hold buildings from 1960 or earlier, and 23% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Breukelen development lies wholly or partly within Canarsie.

Parks

Parkland
77.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Paerdegat Basin Park (40.4 acres), Breukelen Ballfields (15.9 acres) and Fresh Creek Nature Preserve (12.4 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
6,939 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and Japanese flowering cherry
Street with the most corners
Flatlands Avenue, with 34 of the area's 439
Height above sea level
From 5 feet at Avenue N & East 108th Street to 26 feet at Ditmas Avenue & East 88th Street
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 37 schools and two libraries in Canarsie.

Public schools
20
Charter and private schools
17
Libraries
Canarsie Library and Jamaica Bay Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 700 major felonies at places in Canarsie.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Canarsie

  • 613 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,921 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Canarsie, the NYPD recorded another 123 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Canarsie.

Map of Canarsie: 18 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Canarsie, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Canarsie, most about 1,500 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Canarsie are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Canarsie and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
69th (most of the area), 67th
Major felonies recorded at places in Canarsie, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 336 major felonies at places in Canarsie, against 309 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.