Church Avenue & Buckingham Road

Church Avenue and Buckingham Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Park South Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Parade Ground is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
520 feet · 2 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
470 feet
Church Av/E 18 St · B35
Within a walk
12 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Church Avenue & Buckingham Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 520 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av B, Q
    520 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Beverley Rd Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/E 18 St, 470 feet away, for the B35.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/E 18 St B35
    470 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 18 St & Church Ave 31 docks in all
    630 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 396 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
47 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 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 1928 and 1956.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and June 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 7pm on Buckingham Road (both sides), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Church Avenue (north side).

East side of Buckingham Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Buckingham Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Church Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY NOON-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 6PM-MIDNIGHT ALL DAYS
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 303333, 303553, 303554 and 330266.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Park South Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 76 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1901 and 1914.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Gifted & Talented Early Developers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    80 feet
  2. Aim High Children's Services Preschool
    270 feet
  3. Practical Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    470 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 249 the Caton School
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Q Gardens Community Farm Garden
    490 feet
  2. Parade Ground Park
    770 feet
  3. Detective Dillon Stewart Playground
    830 feet

Health care

  1. Caton Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Knickerbocker Field Club Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Beth Emeth Vohr Progressive Shaari Zedek Landmark
    270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 25 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Buckingham Road 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.