Church Avenue & 37th Street

Church Avenue and 37th Street meet at a three-way junction in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion is 140 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 28 public places, 12 of them schools, and 13 places to eat. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1915 and 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Church Av/Chester Av · B35
Within a walk
28 places
12 schools, 9 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Church Avenue & 37th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Ditmas Av F
    0.4 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/Chester Av, 330 feet away, for the B35.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/Chester Av B35
    330 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 37 St & 13 Ave 16 docks in all
    420 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1 Cortelyou Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 5115 15th Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 February 2019.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
39
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Borough Park
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 37th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Church Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

South side of Church Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 public places.

  • 12 schools
  • 9 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 college
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion School
    140 feet
  2. Bais Meir School
    190 feet
  3. Little Cubs Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    790 feet
Show all 22
  1. Talmud Torah Ohel Yochanan School
    190 feet
  2. Gan Yisroel School
    420 feet
  3. Kesser Malka School
    800 feet
  4. United Talmudical Academy-Boro Park School
    800 feet
  5. Yeled V'Yalda - Eval Site School
    830 feet
  6. TLC Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    860 feet
  7. Bais Tziporah School
    910 feet
  8. Bais Yaakov of Bensonhurst School
    910 feet
  9. Daemen University-Brooklyn Branch College
    940 feet
  10. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Ctr Preschool
    960 feet
  11. Yeshiva Machzikei Hadas School
    960 feet
  12. Cuddle Cove Child Care Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    960 feet
  13. Bais Shifra Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
  14. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,060 feet
  15. Twinkle Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  16. Mesivta Nesivas Hatalmud School
    1,130 feet
  17. Yeshiva Headstart 40th Street Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  18. Bnos Yakov of Boro Park School
    1,170 feet
  19. Yeshivath Kehilath Yakov Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dome Playground
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Congregation Chevra Linath Hazedeck Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. KRM Supermarket Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 26 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 37th Street or Church Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.