East 46th Street & Snyder Avenue

East 46th Street and Snyder Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Rugby Congregational Church is 880 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Church Av/Troy Av, is 1,060 feet away for the B35, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
2.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,060 feet
Church Av/Troy Av · B35
Within a walk
9 places
5 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 46th Street & Snyder Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/Troy Av, 1,060 feet away, for the B35.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/Troy Av B35
    1,060 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Snyder Ave & Schenectady Ave 19 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3602 Snyder Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
45
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2019 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 46th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of East 46th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Snyder Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Snyder Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Excelsior Elementary School
    830 feet
  2. Apple Tree Learning Center School
    840 feet
  3. Apple Tree Daycare Ac Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    920 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Tilden Playground
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Rugby Congregational Church Listed historic place
    880 feet
  2. Universal Church House of worship
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,140 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. 4003 Church Farm Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 46th Street or Snyder Avenue.

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.