East 105th Street & Flatlands 1st Street

East 105th Street and Flatlands 1st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 279 Playground is 340 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 105 St/Avenue J, is 240 feet away for the B103 and BM2, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them schools, and one place to eat. About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1955 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

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East 105th Street & Flatlands 1st Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 105 St/Avenue J, 240 feet away, for the B103 and BM2.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 105 St/Avenue J B103, BM2
    240 feet
    B103 BM2

Next buses at this stop

  1. B103 …
  2. BM2 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 10802 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.8 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 1955 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 105th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Flatlands 1st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Flatlands 1st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 279 Herman Schreiber School
    650 feet
  2. Uncommon Canarsie Charter School NYC School
    650 feet
  3. A Plus Kidz Academy School
    1,000 feet
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  1. The Science and Medicine Middle School
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. P.S. 279 Playground
    340 feet
  2. Fresh Creek Nature Preserve Nature area
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food World Supermarket Supermarket
    1,220 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners 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.