Church Avenue & East 48th Street

Church Avenue and East 48th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Apple Tree Learning Center is 300 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Church Av/E 48 St, is 40 feet away for the B35, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 35 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Church Av/E 48 St · B35
Within a walk
20 places
13 religious buildings, 4 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Church Avenue & East 48th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/E 48 St, 40 feet away, for the B35.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/E 48 St B35
    40 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 49 St & Church Ave 25 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5802 Church Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
41 and 45 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Church Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Church Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of East 48th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of East 48th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 324557, 328052 and 339807.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Apple Tree Daycare Ac Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    230 feet
  2. Apple Tree Learning Center School
    300 feet
  3. P.S. 135 Sheldon A. Brookner School
    740 feet
Show all 7
  1. Excelsior Elementary School
    930 feet
  2. Battalion Christian Academy School
    1,160 feet
  3. Edso Dental Assistant Training Cente Trade or language school
    1,250 feet
  4. Innovators Prep Preschool
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Rugby Congregational Church Listed historic place
    770 feet
  2. Universal Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    710 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    910 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    130 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    580 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Church Avenue or East 48th Street.

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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.