Canarsie Road & Matthews Place

Canarsie Road and Matthews Place meet at a three-way junction in Canarsie, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 115 Daniel Mucatel School is 760 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue M/Canarsie Rd, is 420 feet away for the B103 and BM2, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and two places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Canarsie Road & Matthews Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue M/Canarsie Rd, 420 feet away, for the B103 and BM2.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue M/Canarsie Rd B103, BM2
    420 feet
    B103 BM2

Next buses at this stop

  1. B103 …
  2. BM2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2000 Rockaway Parkway Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1.1 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 900 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 1960.

Trees

Five trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Matthews Place

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Matthews Place

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 115 Daniel Mucatel School
    760 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Canarsie Park
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 nearest of the 14 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.