Flatbush Avenue & 7th Avenue

Flatbush Avenue and 7th Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 40 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist stands 500 feet away. The nearest subway, 7 Av, is about a minute on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 67 places to eat.

Safety record
22 hurt
40 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
7 Av
260 feet · 1 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
7 Av/Flatbush Av · B67, B69
Within a walk
19 places
7 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & 7th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 7 Av, 260 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av B, Q
    260 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Bergen St 2, 3
    1,150 feet
    2 3
  2. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    1,200 feet
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/Flatbush Av, 100 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Flatbush Av B67, B69 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    100 feet
    B67 B69
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 92 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 7 Ave & Park Pl 25 docks in all
    150 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 40 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 22 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
35 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
89 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1876 and 1908.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 10am to 7pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 8am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (east side).

South side of 7th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306437 and 330477.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 502 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1871 and 1886.

  1. Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist Designated landmark
    500 feet
  2. Grace United Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    500 feet
  3. St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 park
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. The Nook Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    420 feet
  2. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    450 feet
  3. Berkeley-Carroll School
    1,000 feet
Show all 8
  1. Park Slope Child Care Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    720 feet
  2. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    930 feet
  3. Bpos of Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet
  4. M.S. K266 - Park Place Community Middle School
    1,250 feet
  5. P.S. K077 School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    740 feet
  2. Prospect Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace United Methodist Church Landmark
    540 feet
  2. Memorial Presbyterian Church Landmark
    720 feet
  3. St Augustine RC Church House of worship
    1,000 feet

Fire and police

  1. 78th Precinct Police station
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,300 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    120 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 67 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 7th Avenue or Flatbush Avenue.

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