Church Avenue & Marlborough Road

Church Avenue and Marlborough 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, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Temple Beth Emeth Vohr Progressive Shaari Zedek is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
790 feet · 3 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Church Av/Rugby Rd · B35
Within a walk
14 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Church Avenue & Marlborough Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 790 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av B, Q
    790 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
    0.3 miles
    Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/Rugby Rd, 200 feet away, for the B35.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/Rugby Rd B35
    200 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Church Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on Monday to Saturday.

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rugby Rd & Albemarle Rd 19 docks in all
    770 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
    0.4 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

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
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
46 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 1924 and 1956.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Church Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Church Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 6PM-MIDNIGHT ALL DAYS
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Marlborough Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Marlborough Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 105 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1901 and 1911.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Aim High Children's Services Preschool
    110 feet
  2. Gifted & Talented Early Developers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    360 feet
  3. P.S. 249 the Caton School
    590 feet
Show all 5
  1. Practical Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    740 feet
  2. Honeydew Drop Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Parade Ground Park
    750 feet
  2. Q Gardens Community Farm Garden
    760 feet
  3. Detective Dillon Stewart Playground
    1,110 feet

Health care

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

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Park South Historic District Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

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

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 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 19 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Church Avenue or Marlborough Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.