Avenue L & Utica Avenue

Avenue L and Utica Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,490 bus-lane and 3,264 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 203 Floyd Bennett School is 1,060 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Avenue L, is 130 feet away for the B46, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Utica Av/Avenue L · B46
Within a walk
5 places
3 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue L & Utica Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Avenue L, 130 feet away, for the B46.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utica Av/Avenue L B46
    130 feet
    B46

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Utica Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm, every day.

Cycling

  • 10 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
    190 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, June 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,264 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 268th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,636 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on Utica Avenue2,1891,066
Northbound on Utica Avenue1,075570
Total3,2641,636

In 2025, 1,490 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 97th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 309 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets · Every corner with bus-lane camera tickets

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
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 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 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the dawn redwood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 7 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2023 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue L

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

South side of Avenue L

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Utica Avenue

  • Metered parking 8 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

West side of Utica Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 334235, 336707, 336708 and 339518.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Learning Ladder Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  2. P.S. 203 Floyd Bennett School
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Judah Congregation House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,010 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    150 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue L or Utica Avenue.

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