East 34th Street & Avenue R
East 34th Street and Avenue R meet at a four-way crossing in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Fire Captain Timothy Stackpole Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 222 Katherine R. Snyder is 1,070 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue R/E 34 St, is 40 feet away for the B2, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and two places to eat.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Avenue R/E 34 St, 40 feet away, for the B2.
- 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Avenue R/E 34 St B240 feetB2
Next buses at this stop
- B2 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.
- 2255 Flatbush Avenue Gas station0.6 miles
- 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers0.6 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.
- 2 people injured
- 0 people killed
- 1 of those hurt, on foot
- 1 of those hurt, on a bike
The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.
What the city has done here
- Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2023
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11234
- Community board
- Brooklyn Community Board 18
- City Council district
- 46
- Police precinct
- 63
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach
- Elevation
- 14 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Fire Captain Timothy Stackpole Corner, a co-naming enacted on October 20, 2003 (Local Law 62 of 2003).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
Homes
About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1935.
Trees
NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Fire Captain Timothy Stackpole Corner.
Schools and places within a walk
How places are listedTwo public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 day care or pre-K site
- 1 school
Schools and child care
- P.S. 222 Katherine R. Snyder School1,070 feet
- Infinity Educational Programs Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K1,300 feet
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and two food stores.
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
- A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
- A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
Nearby corners
The eight corners within a three-minute walk:
- East 35th Street & Avenue R 260 feet
- Avenue R & East 33rd Street 260 feet
- East 32nd Street & Avenue R 520 feet
- Avenue R & East 36th Street 530 feet
- East 34th Street & Fillmore Avenue 780 feet
- East 31st Street & Avenue R 780 feet
- East 34th Street & Quentin Road 780 feet
- East 37th Street & Avenue R 800 feet
See every intersection along Avenue R or East 34th Street.