Atlantic Avenue & Eldert Lane

Atlantic Avenue and Eldert Lane meet at a four-way crossing in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Cypress Hills Ascend Charter School is 960 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about nine minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, seven of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Atlantic Av/Eldert LN · Q24
Within a walk
9 places
7 religious buildings, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Eldert Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Crescent St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Grant Av A
    0.5 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wheel of Bloom-Soak up the Sun” (2007) by Jung Hyang Kim at the Crescent St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Eldert LN, 180 feet away, for the Q24.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Eldert LN Q24 · Shelter
    180 feet
    Q24
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 81-02 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 9325 Rockaway Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.2 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
32 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
75 and 102 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2015 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Eldert Lane

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Eldert Lane

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Cypress Hills Ascend Charter School
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Legion Triangle
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Redeeming Grace Baptist Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Eldert Lane.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.