East 26th Street & Cortelyou Road

East 26th Street and Cortelyou Road meet at a three-way junction in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway is 690 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverly Rd, is about five minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverly Rd
1,220 feet · 5 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
620 feet
Rogers Av/Beverley Rd · B49
Within a walk
16 places
13 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 26th Street & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverly Rd, 1,220 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Beverly Rd 2, 5
    1,220 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rogers Av/Beverley Rd, 620 feet away, for the B49.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rogers Av/Beverley Rd B49
    620 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

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. 1092 Rogers Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 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 June 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Erasmus
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 53 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.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

South side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of East 26th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 26th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Big Dreams Child Care Center II Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    670 feet
  2. Brooklyn's Brightest Starz Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    730 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Garden
    1,010 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway House of worship
    690 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Cortelyou Rd House of worship
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Cortelyou Road or East 26th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.