East 17th Street & Dorchester Road

East 17th Street and Dorchester Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Ditmas Park Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dorchester Senior Citizens Center is 670 feet away. The nearest subway, Cortelyou Rd, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cortelyou Rd
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
1,050 feet
Cortelyou Rd/E 18 St · B103, BM1, BM2, BM3 +1
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 17th Street & Dorchester Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cortelyou Rd, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    1,160 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Beverley Rd Q
    0.4 miles
    Q
  2. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cortelyou Rd/E 18 St, 1,050 feet away, for the B103, BM1, BM2, BM3 and BM4.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cortelyou Rd/E 18 St B103, BM1, BM2, BM3 +1
    1,050 feet
    B103 BM1 BM2 BM3 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B103 …
  2. BM1 …
  3. BM2 …
  4. BM3 …
  5. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 35 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 16 St & Cortelyou Rd 26 docks in all
    1,040 feet

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. 842 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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 four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2024.

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
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 1926 and 1958.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dorchester Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Dorchester Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 17th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 17th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 212 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1902 and 1907.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Aleph Elc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    620 feet
  2. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ditmas Park Historic District Listed historic place
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church Landmark
    430 feet
  2. Congregation Ohel Yitzhack House of worship
    620 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Dorchester Senior Citizens Center Older adult center
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    950 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,090 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dorchester Road or East 17th Street.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.