East 37th Street & Clarkson Avenue

East 37th Street and Clarkson Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. University Hospital of Brooklyn is 690 feet away, and Rolph Henry Playground is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Winthrop St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them hospitals, and six places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Winthrop St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Clarkson Av/Kings County Hospital · B12
Within a walk
7 places
2 hospitals, 1 ambulance station and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 37th Street & Clarkson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Winthrop St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Winthrop St 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 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clarkson Av/Kings County Hospital, 290 feet away, for the B12.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clarkson Av/Kings County Hospital B12
    290 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clarkson Ave & E 37 St 22 docks in all
    50 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. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 597 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    850 feet
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67 and 71 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Erasmus
Elevation
52 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1945.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Eleven trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Clarkson Avenue

  • Ambulettes and Access-A-Ride only 1 sign AMBULETTE & ACCESS-A-RIDE ONLY
  • Ambulettes only 3 signs AMBULETTE ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East 37th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of East 37th Street

  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • Doctor plates only 4 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 hospitals
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Univ. College
    690 feet
  2. The Children's Center at SUNY Brooklyn Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
  3. P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School
    950 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rolph Henry Playground
    1,110 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 38 Ambulance station
    430 feet
  2. University Hospital of Brooklyn Hospital
    690 feet
  3. Kings County Hospital Center Hospital
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Clarkson Avenue or East 37th 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.