Atlantic Avenue & Elton Street

Atlantic Avenue and Elton Street meet at a three-way junction in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Liberty Avenue Middle School is 710 feet away, and St Michaels Church is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, Cleveland St, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cleveland St
950 feet · 4 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Atlantic Av/Elton St · Q24, T340
Within a walk
21 places
12 religious buildings, 6 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Elton Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cleveland St, 950 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cleveland St J
    950 feet
    J

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Shepherd Av C
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. Norwood Av J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Las Flores” (2007) by Amy Cheng at the Cleveland St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Elton St, 60 feet away, for the Q24 and T340.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Elton St Q24, T340
    60 feet
    Q24 T340

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …
  2. T340 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cleveland St & Liberty Ave 12 docks in all
    910 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2822 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 2 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2013

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cypress Hills
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 136 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and November 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7AM-8AM

East side of Elton Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Elton Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First Apollo Charter School
    710 feet
  2. Liberty Avenue Middle School
    710 feet
  3. Vista Academy School
    710 feet
Show all 6
  1. Followers of Jesus School
    810 feet
  2. P.S. 089 Cypress Hills School
    830 feet
  3. East Brooklyn Ascend Charter School
    910 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sperandeo Brothers Playground
    60 feet
  2. Essex Street Community Garden
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Substation #401 (BMT) Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Michaels Church House of worship
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Elton Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.