Avenue P & East 38th Street

Avenue P and East 38th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Thomas Aquinas Church is 1,310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatbush Av/Troy Av, is 0.3 miles away for the B9, B41 and Q35, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites.

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Avenue P & East 38th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Troy Av, 0.3 miles away, for the B9, B41 and Q35.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Troy Av B9, B41, Q35
    0.3 miles
    B9 B41 Q35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …
  2. B41 …
  3. Q35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.4 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 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)
Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1925 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and March 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue P

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue P

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
  2. BBB Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Aquinas Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

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