East 59th Street & Clarendon Road

East 59th Street and Clarendon Road meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 567 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Ivy Hill Preparatory Charter School is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd, is 330 feet away for the B47, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd · B47
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 2 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 59th Street & Clarendon Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd, 330 feet away, for the B47.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd B47
    330 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Clarendon Road.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 401 East 80th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 567 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,110th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 251 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 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 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and May 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 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of East 59th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 59th Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Flemish Medieval Survival, and built in 1652.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 museum
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Birch Family Services - Nazareth Ctr School
    830 feet
  2. Ivy Hill Preparatory Charter School
    830 feet
  3. Nazareth Regional High School
    830 feet
Show all 4
  1. I.S. 285 Meyer Levin School
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Harry Maze Playground
    790 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pieter Wyckoff House Listed historic place
    230 feet
  2. Wyckoff House Museum Landmark
    240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Good Food for Less Supermarket
    1,270 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Clarendon Road or East 59th Street.

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