Albemarle Road & Buckingham Road

Albemarle Road and Buckingham Road meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Prospect Park South Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Temple Beth Emeth Vohr Progressive Shaari Zedek is 540 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and six places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
1,220 feet · 5 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
1,070 feet
Church Av/Rugby Rd · B35
Within a walk
6 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 1 garden and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albemarle Road & Buckingham Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 1,220 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av B, Q
    1,220 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Beverley Rd Q
    1,280 feet
    Q
  2. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/Rugby Rd, 1,070 feet away, for the B35.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/Rugby Rd B35
    1,070 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 39 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rugby Rd & Albemarle Rd 19 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 396 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1930 and 1940.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and December 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Albemarle Road

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Albemarle Road

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Park South Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 156 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1901 and 1910.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Aim High Children's Services Preschool
    540 feet
  2. Gifted & Talented Early Developers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  3. Practical Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Q Gardens Community Farm Garden
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Park South Historic District Listed historic place
    790 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Beth Emeth Vohr Progressive Shaari Zedek Landmark
    540 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Albemarle Road or Buckingham Road.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.