East 49th Street & Fillmore Avenue

East 49th Street and Fillmore Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Edwin Thomas Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Trust Triangle is 910 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Fillmore Av/Flatbush Av, is 220 feet away for the B100, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places and nine places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
Fillmore Av/Flatbush Av · B100
Within a walk
6 places
1 fire station, 1 park and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 49th Street & Fillmore Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fillmore Av/Flatbush Av, 220 feet away, for the B100.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fillmore Av/Flatbush Av B100
    220 feet
    B100

Next buses at this stop

  1. B100 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2255 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    300 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 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 October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2024

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)
Flatlands
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Edwin Thomas Way, a co-naming enacted on February 5, 2015 (Local Law 15 of 2015).

The streets

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

Homes

About 500 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese tree lilac.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Edwin Thomas Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 49th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Fillmore Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Fillmore Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 fire station
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 207 Elizabeth G. Leary School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Trust Triangle
    910 feet
  2. Power Playground
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Flatbush House of worship
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Ryder Retail Post Office
    690 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 309/Ladder 159 Fire station
    520 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    430 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Kings Plaza Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 49th Street or Fillmore Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.