Atlantic Avenue & Saratoga Avenue

Atlantic Avenue and Saratoga Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 63 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 244 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Uncommon Crown Heights Charter School NYC is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Rockaway Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
31 hurt
63 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Rockaway Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Saratoga Av/Atlantic Av · B7
Within a walk
27 places
15 religious buildings, 4 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Saratoga Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Rockaway Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Rockaway Av C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Ralph Av C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Saratoga Av/Atlantic Av, 130 feet away, for the B7.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Saratoga Av/Atlantic Av B7
    130 feet
    B7

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fulton St & Saratoga Ave 19 docks in all
    720 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 63 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 31 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2015

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 244 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 157th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 1,841 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73 and 81 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ocean Hill
Elevation
98 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1910.

Since 2014 at least 83 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 4 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Saratoga Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Saratoga Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 4 gardens
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Wiser Choice Learning Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    540 feet
  2. Uncommon Crown Heights Charter School NYC School
    650 feet
  3. Eagle Academy for Young Men II School
    800 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 178 Saint Clair McKelway School
    830 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marge Matthews Garden
    410 feet
  2. Sh'ma Yisrael Garden
    420 feet
  3. Saratoga Farm Garden
    750 feet
Show all 8
  1. Fish Playground
    810 feet
  2. Weeksville Playground
    860 feet
  3. Hilltop Playground
    1,060 feet
  4. Farmers Garden
    1,110 feet
  5. South Pacific Playground
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ebenezer Baptist Church House of worship
    380 feet
  2. New Brooklyn Reformed Church House of worship
    670 feet
  3. St Matthew FBH Church House of worship
    1,040 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and nine 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 Saratoga Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.