Flatbush Avenue & Beekman Place

Flatbush Avenue and Beekman Place meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Chester Court Wall stands 690 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about three minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 39 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
700 feet · 3 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Flatbush Av/Midwood St · B41
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 1 listed historic place and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Beekman Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 700 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    700 feet
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkside Av Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brighton Clay Re-Leaf Nos. 1-4” (1994) by Susan Tunick at the Prospect Park station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Midwood St, 70 feet away, for the B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Midwood St B41 · Shelter
    70 feet
    B41
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Maple St & Flatbush Ave 24 docks in all
    100 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    580 feet
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 3,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1939.

Since 2014 at least 70 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and December 2024, 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).

North side of Beekman Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Beekman Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 311755 and 329469.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 258 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Georgian, and mostly built between 1898 and 1915.

  1. Chester Court Wall Designated landmark
    690 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
  2. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    780 feet
  3. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    920 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    940 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Playground
    1,030 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    560 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.