Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Flushing Avenue

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Flushing Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 96 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Classon Playground is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flushing Av/Classon Av, is 130 feet away for the B57, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and three places to eat.

Safety record
73 hurt
96 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Flushing Av/Classon Av · B57
Within a walk
16 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 4 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Flushing Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Classon Av, 130 feet away, for the B57.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Classon Av B57
    130 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Flushing Avenue.

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wallabout St & Kent Ave 23 docks in all
    740 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 711 Kent Avenue Gas station
    960 feet
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 96 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
88 and 90 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Williamsburg

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 300 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 2002 and 2020.

Since 2014 at least 77 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Greek Revival, and built between 1830 and 1838.

  1. United States Naval Hospital Designated landmark
    730 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Bnos Israel School
    970 feet
  2. Gan Bnos Yisroel Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet
  3. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet
Show all 8
  1. Yeshiva Nachlas Tzvi D'Krula Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet
  2. Jolly Baby Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,200 feet
  3. Yeshiva Beth Hillel of Williamsburg School
    1,280 feet
  4. Bnos Spinka Boys School
    1,300 feet
  5. Child care center at 77-87 Wallabout Street School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Classon Playground
    40 feet
  2. Steuben Playground
    190 feet
  3. Classon Triangle
    510 feet
Show all 5
  1. Taaffe Playground
    1,000 feet
  2. Penn Triangle Playground
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. One Stop Kosher Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Flushing Avenue.

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