Bedford Avenue & Cortelyou Road

Bedford Avenue and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway is 160 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverly Rd, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat. About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverly Rd
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Bedford Av/Beverley Rd · B49
Within a walk
18 places
14 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bedford Avenue & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverly Rd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beverly Rd 2, 5
    0.3 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bedford Av/Beverley Rd, 130 feet away, for the B49.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bedford Av/Beverley Rd B49
    130 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bedford Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Beverley Rd 24 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1092 Rogers Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Erasmus
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 49 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and January 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Bedford Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 15 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Renaissance Revival. They were mostly built between 1909 and 1912.

  1. Sears Roebuck & Company Department Store Designated landmark
    450 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 theater or concert hall
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn's Brightest Starz Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    240 feet
  2. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    1,050 feet
  3. Big Dreams Child Care Center II Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,190 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Kings Theatre Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway House of worship
    160 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Cortelyou Rd House of worship
    210 feet
  3. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bedford Avenue or Cortelyou Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.