East 23rd Street & Vanderveer Place

East 23rd Street and Vanderveer Place meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Fernande Valme Ministries is 950 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd, is 540 feet away for the B41, and 11 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1912 and 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
1.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd · B41
Within a walk
15 places
9 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 23rd Street & Vanderveer Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd, 540 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Beverley Rd 24 docks in all
    1,260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1092 Rogers Avenue Gas station
    0.3 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
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1912 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 44 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and September 2016, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of East 23rd Street

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

North side of Vanderveer Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Vanderveer Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 56 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Renaissance Revival, and built between 1909 and 1912.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    490 feet
  2. New Generation Learning Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  3. New Generation Elementary School
    1,180 feet
Show all 5
  1. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    1,200 feet
  2. Brooklyn's Brightest Starz Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. Ditmas Park Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Jehovahs Witnesses Cortelyou Rd House of worship
    720 feet
  2. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway House of worship
    730 feet
  3. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    950 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 23rd Street or Vanderveer Place.

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