Coney Island Avenue & Matthews Court

Coney Island Avenue and Matthews Court meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 889 is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverley Rd, is about eight minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1910 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverley Rd
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Coney Island Av/Slocum Pl · B68
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Coney Island Avenue & Matthews Court Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverley Rd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Beverley Rd Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Garden Stops” (1994) by Patsy Norvell at the Beverley Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Slocum Pl, 170 feet away, for the B68.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Slocum Pl B68
    170 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Stratford Rd & Beverley Rd 19 docks in all
    820 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. 619 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    200 feet
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 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 one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
39
Police precinct
66 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 2 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Coney Island Avenue (west side).

East side of Coney Island Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Matthews Court

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Matthews Court

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 304629 and 333174.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 34 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1896 and 1905.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. M.S. 890 School
    1,000 feet
  2. P.S. 889 School
    1,000 feet
  3. Honeydew Cortelyou Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    830 feet
  2. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Coney Island Avenue or Matthews Court.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.