Avenue L & Schenectady Avenue

Avenue L and Schenectady Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Beth Judah Congregation is 440 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/Schenectady Av, is 400 feet away for the B82, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
Flatlands Av/Schenectady Av · B82
Within a walk
5 places
3 religious buildings, 1 garden and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue L & Schenectady Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/Schenectady Av, 400 feet away, for the B82.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/Schenectady Av B82
    400 feet
    B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1982 Utica Avenue Gas station
    800 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1920 and 1934.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Summer Charm' Peking lilac and the swamp white oak.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Serenity Community Garden
    710 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhaven House Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Judah Congregation House of worship
    440 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,200 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    960 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue L or Schenectady Avenue.

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.