Blake Avenue & Tapscott Street

Blake Avenue and Tapscott Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Remsen Village, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 2,915 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Howard Malls is 30 feet away, and Sunkissed Garden is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, is about four minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
E 98 St/Blake Av · B15, B47
Within a walk
16 places
8 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Blake Avenue & Tapscott Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    1,000 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Saratoga Av 3
    0.4 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Ailanthus” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Sutter Av-Rutland Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 98 St/Blake Av, 580 feet away, for the B15 and B47.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 98 St/Blake Av B15, B47
    580 feet
    B15 B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …
  2. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Howard Ave & Blake Ave 18 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 24 Dumont Avenue Gas station
    740 feet
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2023.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,915 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 305th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,534 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
73
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Remsen Village
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 98 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and October 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Blake Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Blake Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Tapscott Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Tapscott Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Ascend Charter Middle School
    490 feet
  2. I.S. 392 School
    1,030 feet
  3. P.S. 156 Waverly School
    1,030 feet
Show all 4
  1. The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers< Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Howard Malls Park
    30 feet
  2. Howard Garden
    300 feet
  3. Fantasy Garden
    850 feet
Show all 4
  1. Sunkissed Garden
    910 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    700 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    610 feet
  2. Green Village Supermarket Supermarket
    700 feet
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    730 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    820 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Blake Avenue or Tapscott Street.

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