Albemarle Road & Stratford Road

Albemarle Road and Stratford Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Prospect Park South Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 889 is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverley Rd, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverley Rd
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
460 feet
Church Av/Westminster Rd · B35
Within a walk
7 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Albemarle Road & Stratford Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beverley Rd Q
    0.4 miles
    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
    0.4 miles
    B 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/Westminster Rd, 460 feet away, for the B35.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/Westminster Rd B35
    460 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Turner Pl & Coney Island Ave 20 docks in all
    780 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 396 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1,230 feet
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 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 November 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
44 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1964.

Since 2014 at least 44 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Albemarle Road

  • No standing 11 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Albemarle Road

  • No standing 11 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Stratford Road

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Stratford Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Park South Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 195 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1903 and 1909.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Honeydew Drop Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    320 feet
  2. M.S. 890 School
    990 feet
  3. P.S. 889 School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Parade Ground Park
    1,020 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    790 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 15 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Albemarle Road or Stratford 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.