East 4th Street & Elmwood Avenue

East 4th Street and Elmwood Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Mesivta Sholom Schachna is 90 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave I, is about five minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1928 and 1961, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave I
1,180 feet · 5 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Avenue I/E 3 St · B11
Within a walk
15 places
6 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 4th Street & Elmwood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave I, 1,180 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Ave I F
    1,180 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 18 Av F
    0.3 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Where the Sky Begins” (2018) by Kambui Olujimi at the Ave I station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue I/E 3 St, 540 feet away, for the B11.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue I/E 3 St B11
    540 feet
    B11

Next buses at this stop

  1. B11 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5021 Bay Parkway Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.6 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
40
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and June 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 4th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 4th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Elmwood Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Mesivta Sholom Schachna School
    90 feet
  2. Cheder (The) School
    620 feet
  3. The Cheder School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet
Show all 7
  1. United Lubavitcher Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    770 feet
  2. Lubavitcher High School
    830 feet
  3. Lubavitcher School Chabad School
    830 feet
  4. Mevakshai Torah School
    830 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 870 Ocean Parkway Older adult center
    600 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 250 Fire station
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    1,060 feet
  2. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four 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 of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 4th Street or Elmwood Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.