Avenue N & Utica Avenue

Avenue N 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, 1,147 bus-lane camera tickets were recorded here. Power Playground is 60 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue N/Utica Av, is 60 feet away for the B41, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Utica Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
24 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Avenue N/Utica Av · B41
Within a walk
7 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue N & Utica Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue N/Utica Av, 60 feet away, for the B41.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue N/Utica Av B41
    60 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 29 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1982 Utica Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.4 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.

  • 23 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,147 bus-lane camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 109th most of the 174 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 3, 329 more were issued.

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
46
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 49 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and January 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue N

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Avenue N

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

East side of Utica Avenue

  • Metered parking 7 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 319071, 320697 and 320700.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Learning Ladder Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    670 feet
  2. First Noah's Ark Universal Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    830 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Power Playground
    60 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhaven House Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    450 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue N or Utica Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.