Church Avenue & East 52nd Street

Church Avenue and East 52nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Rugby Congregational Church is 1,100 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Church Av/E 52 St, is 100 feet away for the B35, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 30 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Church Av/E 52 St · B35
Within a walk
13 places
8 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Church Avenue & East 52nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/E 52 St, 100 feet away, for the B35.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/E 52 St B35
    100 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 47 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
    870 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
26 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 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Church Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-4PM 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 52nd Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 52nd Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 324576, 328952 and 330635.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Faces of the Future Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    510 feet
  2. Oholei Torah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,210 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. Edso Dental Assistant Training Cente Trade or language school
    1,230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Rugby Congregational Church Listed historic place
    1,100 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 310/Ladder 174 Fire station
    920 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    240 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    690 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,090 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    520 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 places to eat and 22 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 52nd 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.