Ditmas Avenue & East 91st Street

Ditmas Avenue and East 91st Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Remsen Village, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Railroad Playground is 50 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Remsen Av/Ditmas Av, is 310 feet away for the B17, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

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Ditmas Avenue & East 91st Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Remsen Av/Ditmas Av, 310 feet away, for the B17.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Remsen Av/Ditmas Av B17
    310 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 804 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    460 feet
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two 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 February 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
42
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Remsen Village
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1945 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ditmas Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

South side of Ditmas Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

East side of East 91st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of East 91st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Railroad Playground
    50 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    880 feet
  2. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change 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:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.