Ditmas Avenue & Westminster Road

Ditmas Avenue and Westminster Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Ditmas Park West Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Peace Academy is 760 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Plaza, is about seven minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Plaza
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Coney Island Av/Ditmas Av · B68
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ditmas Avenue & Westminster Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Plaza, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    0.3 miles
    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. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Transit Skylight” (1988) by David Wilson at the Newkirk Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Ditmas Av, 480 feet away, for the B68.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Ditmas Av B68
    480 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 35 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cortelyou Rd & Argyle Rd 25 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3701 18th Avenue Gas station
    660 feet
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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 1925 and 1933.

Since 2014 at least 9 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 96 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ditmas Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Ditmas Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Westminster Road

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Westminster Road

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Ditmas Park West Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 126 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Queen Anne, and mostly built between 1904 and 1905.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 2 trade or language schools

Schools and child care

  1. Early Childhood Development Center Kaleidoscope Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  2. Peace Academy School
    760 feet
  3. Inst for Career Training & Developme Trade or language school
    760 feet
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  1. Snapdragon Place Pre-K
    760 feet
  2. Manhattan School of Computer Technol Trade or language school
    760 feet
  3. Nayema Universal Child Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
  4. P.S. 217 Colonel David Marcus School
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Ditmas Avenue or Westminster Road.

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.