East 56th Street & Clarendon Road

East 56th Street and Clarendon Road meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Ivy Hill Preparatory Charter School is 790 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kings Hwy/Clarendon Rd, is 340 feet away for the B7 and B8, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
Kings Hwy/Clarendon Rd · B7, B8
Within a walk
10 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 56th Street & Clarendon Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/Clarendon Rd, 340 feet away, for the B7 and B8.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/Clarendon Rd B7, B8
    340 feet
    B7 B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …
  2. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Clarendon Road.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beverley Rd & E 49 St 22 docks in all
    0.5 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1141 Utica Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1940 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Clarendon Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Clarendon Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of East 56th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 56th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 museum
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Birch Family Services - Nazareth Ctr School
    790 feet
  2. Ivy Hill Preparatory Charter School
    790 feet
  3. Nazareth Regional High School
    790 feet
Show all 4
  1. Ebenezer Preparatory School /Ebenezer Preparatory School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Harry Maze Playground
    390 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pieter Wyckoff House Listed historic place
    1,020 feet
  2. Wyckoff House Museum
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Good Food for Less Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and one food store.

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 of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Clarendon Road or East 56th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.