East 21st Street & Dorchester Road

East 21st Street and Dorchester Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Gibbs “Big Gibbs” Seraphin Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Ditmas Park Care Center is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, Cortelyou Rd, is about nine minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cortelyou Rd
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd · B41
Within a walk
15 places
8 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 21st Street & Dorchester Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cortelyou Rd, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. 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 Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd, 400 feet away, for the B41.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd B41
    400 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 29 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beverley Rd & Flatbush Ave 30 docks in all
    1,310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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

This corner is also named Gibbs “Big Gibbs” Seraphin Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 1928 and 1958.

Since 2014 at least 102 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Gibbs “Big Gibbs” Seraphin Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dorchester Road

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

South side of Dorchester Road

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

East side of East 21st Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of East 21st Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 331749.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 25 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1907 and 1912.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    470 feet
  2. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    860 feet
  3. St. Mark's Umc Head Start Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet
Show all 5
  1. B'Above Worldwide Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet
  2. Starting Point Serv - St. Marks School
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. Ditmas Park Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    750 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    460 feet
  2. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church House of worship
    900 feet
  3. Pilgrim Wesleyan Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
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  1. St Marks Church United Methodist House of worship
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 961 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 26 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dorchester Road or East 21st 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, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.