East 3rd Street & Cortelyou Road

East 3rd Street and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 179 Kensington is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Ditmas Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings, and six places to eat. About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
7 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ditmas Av
930 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
750 feet
McDonald Av/Cortelyou Rd · B67, B69
Within a walk
11 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 3rd Street & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ditmas Av, 930 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ditmas Av F
    930 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Church Av F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Inheritance: In Memory of American Glass” (2016) by Cara Lynch at the Ditmas Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is McDonald Av/Cortelyou Rd, 750 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McDonald Av/Cortelyou Rd B67, B69
    750 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 3 St & Cortelyou Rd 14 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1 Cortelyou Road Gas station
    850 feet
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
39
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
44 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese pagoda tree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 3rd Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 3rd Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 179 Kensington School
    910 feet
  2. Bnos Jerusalem D'Chasidei Belz School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet
  3. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bnos Yerushalayim School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dome Playground
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 11 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 corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cortelyou Road or East 3rd 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.