East 19th Street & Cortelyou Road

East 19th Street and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 145 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Unity East Church Center is 810 feet away. The nearest subway, Cortelyou Rd, is about four minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cortelyou Rd
1,040 feet · 4 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Cortelyou Rd/E 19 St · B103, BM1, BM2, BM3 +1
Within a walk
14 places
8 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 19th Street & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cortelyou Rd, 1,040 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    1,040 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
    0.3 miles
    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 19 St, 90 feet away, for the B103, BM1, BM2, BM3 and BM4.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cortelyou Rd/E 19 St B103, BM1, BM2, BM3 +1
    90 feet
    B103 BM1 BM2 BM3 BM4

Next buses at this stop

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

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 19 St & Cortelyou Rd 23 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1261 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 145 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,698th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 64 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
28 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1958.

Since 2014 at least 85 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East 19th Street

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

West side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Seven buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival and Mediterranean, and built between 1909 and 1913.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. B'Above Worldwide Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    100 feet
  2. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    950 feet
  3. St. Mark's Umc Head Start Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
Show all 5
  1. Starting Point Serv - St. Marks School
    1,210 feet
  2. P.S. 245 School
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Church of the Holy Innocents Listed historic place
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Unity East Church Center House of worship
    810 feet
  2. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    860 feet
  3. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church House of worship
    960 feet
Show all 4
  1. St Marks Church United Methodist House of worship
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    820 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    970 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 19 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 Cortelyou Road or East 19th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.