East 21st Street & Farragut Road

East 21st Street and Farragut Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Plaza, is about nine minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, four of them religious buildings. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1931 and 1955, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
4 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Plaza
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Ocean Av/Farragut Rd · B49
Within a walk
5 places
4 religious buildings and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Plaza, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. 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 Ocean Av/Farragut Rd, 300 feet away, for the B49.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Farragut Rd B49 · Shelter
    300 feet
    B49
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Farragut Road.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1261 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    980 feet
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 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.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2022
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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 1931 and 1955.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 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 December 2015 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 21st Street

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

West side of East 21st Street

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

North side of Farragut Road

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

South side of Farragut Road

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 64 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1908 and 1919.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Nativity Church House of worship
    250 feet
  2. Our Lady of Refuge Church House of worship
    370 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 21st Street or Farragut Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.