East 23rd Street & Newkirk Avenue

East 23rd Street and Newkirk Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. New Generation Elementary School is 680 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Av-Little Haiti, is about eight minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Av-Little Haiti
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
730 feet
Foster Av/E 22 St · B8, B49
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 23rd Street & Newkirk Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Av-Little Haiti, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Newkirk Av-Little Haiti 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Foster Av/E 22 St, 730 feet away, for the B8 and B49.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Foster Av/E 22 St B8, B49
    730 feet
    B8 B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …
  2. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 29 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beverley Rd & Flatbush Ave 30 docks in all
    0.5 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40 and 45 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

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 1931 and 1935.

Since 2014 at least 61 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and September 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 23rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 23rd Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Newkirk Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Newkirk Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. New Generation Elementary School
    680 feet
  2. New Generation Learning Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    690 feet
  3. The Reggio Emilia Montessori Center Pre-K
    950 feet
Show all 4
  1. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,310 feet

Health care

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

Houses of worship

  1. Pilgrim Wesleyan Church House of worship
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. The Meat Place Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 23rd Street or Newkirk Avenue.

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