Flatbush Avenue & Avenue P

Flatbush Avenue and Avenue P meet at a three-way junction in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Flatlands Library is 120 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatbush Av/Troy Av, is 50 feet away for the B9, B41 and Q35, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Flatbush Av/Troy Av · B9, B41, Q35
Within a walk
6 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Avenue P Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Troy Av, 50 feet away, for the B9, B41 and Q35.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Troy Av B9, B41, Q35
    50 feet
    B9 B41 Q35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …
  2. B41 …
  3. Q35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    990 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, September 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (east side).

North side of Avenue P

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7AM-7:30AM

South side of Avenue P

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7AM-7:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 8 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 319491, 319523, 320436 and 320437.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    240 feet
  2. Midwood Catholic Academy School
    790 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sarsfield Playground
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Flatlands Library
    120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Aquinas Church House of worship
    670 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    410 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and nine food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue P or Flatbush Avenue.

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