Albemarle Road & Marlborough Road

Albemarle Road and Marlborough Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Prospect Park South Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Temple Beth Emeth Vohr Progressive Shaari Zedek is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverley Rd, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverley Rd
1,020 feet · 4 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
810 feet
Church Av/Rugby Rd · B35
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albemarle Road & Marlborough Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverley Rd, 1,020 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beverley Rd Q
    1,020 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Church Av B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q
  2. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Garden Stops” (1994) by Patsy Norvell at the Beverley Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/Rugby Rd, 810 feet away, for the B35.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/Rugby Rd B35
    810 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rugby Rd & Albemarle Rd 19 docks in all
    290 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
    0.4 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

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

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 (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
40 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 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 1926 and 1953.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Albemarle Road

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Albemarle Road

  • No standing 9 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Marlborough Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Marlborough Road

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Park South Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 213 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1901 and 1911.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Aim High Children's Services Preschool
    520 feet
  2. Gifted & Talented Early Developers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
  3. P.S. 249 the Caton School
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Park South Historic District Listed historic place
    530 feet
  2. Beverley Road Subway Station (BRT Pre-Dual System) Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

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

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Albemarle Road or Marlborough 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.