East 87th Street & Stillwells Place

East 87th Street and Stillwells Place meet at a three-way junction in Canarsie, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Our Future School is 400 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue L/E 87 St, is 450 feet away for the B17, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and one place to eat.

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East 87th Street & Stillwells Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue L/E 87 St, 450 feet away, for the B17.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue L/E 87 St B17
    450 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8401 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1.1 miles

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
9 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Machna Shalva - 2 School
    400 feet
  2. Our Future School
    400 feet
  3. Solade Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    820 feet
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  1. Little Einsteins of Canarsie Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

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