Farragut Road & East 88th Street

Farragut Road and East 88th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 114 Ryder Elementary is 1,010 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Remsen Av/Farragut Rd, is 630 feet away for the B17, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

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Farragut Road & East 88th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Remsen Av/Farragut Rd, 630 feet away, for the B17.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Remsen Av/Farragut Rd B17
    630 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 971 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
42 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1935 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 88th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 88th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Farragut Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Farragut Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Clarkson Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  2. Explore Excel Charter School
    1,010 feet
  3. P.S. 114 Ryder Elementary School
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Remsen Playground
    1,120 feet

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    1,110 feet
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

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