Brooklyn Avenue & Newkirk Avenue

Brooklyn Avenue and Newkirk Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East Flatbush-Farragut, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Pauls Methodist Church is 700 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Av-Little Haiti, is about six minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1950, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Av-Little Haiti
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
460 feet
Avenue D/Brooklyn Av · B8
Within a walk
3 places
2 religious buildings and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Avenue & Newkirk Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Av-Little Haiti, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Av-Little Haiti 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 Avenue D/Brooklyn Av, 460 feet away, for the B8.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue D/Brooklyn Av B8
    460 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Beverley Rd 21 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4210 Farragut Road Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 395 Lenox Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five 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 January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
45
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Farragut
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 17 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the American basswood and the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and May 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Newkirk Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Newkirk Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School
    820 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Methodist Church House of worship
    700 feet

Supermarkets

  1. The Meat Place Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, 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:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Newkirk Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.