Flatbush Avenue & Bergen Street

Flatbush Avenue and Bergen Street meet at a four-way crossing in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 44 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,121 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church Rectory stands 500 feet away, and Dean St Baptist Church is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about a minute on foot, and 11 subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 89 places to eat.

Safety record
30 hurt
44 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
50 feet · 1 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Flatbush Av/Bergen St · B41, B67
Within a walk
19 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Bergen Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 50 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 11 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St 2, 3
    50 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R
    1,110 feet
    2 3 4 5 B D N Q R
  2. 7 Av B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Bergen St, 100 feet away, for the B41 and B67.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Bergen St B41, B67
    100 feet
    B41 B67

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …
  2. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Bergen Street.

  • 132 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Flatbush Ave 33 docks in all
    160 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.4 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
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 44 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 30 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2012
  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,121 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 124th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 913 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

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)
Park Slope
Elevation
60 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 753 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 10am to 7pm, Saturday 8am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (east side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 10am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (east side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 8am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (west side).

North side of Bergen Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

South side of Bergen Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 308961, 309614, 309997, 311563 and 333161.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 198 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1869 and 1885.

  1. The Carleton Club Designated landmark
    430 feet
  2. St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church Rectory Designated landmark
    500 feet
  3. Church of God Designated landmark
    610 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Wonderforest Nature Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    580 feet
  2. Bridges: a School for Exploration and Equity School
    640 feet
  3. Design Works High School
    640 feet
Show all 7
  1. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet
  2. Bpos of Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet
  3. M.S. K266 - Park Place Community Middle School
    1,240 feet
  4. P.S. K077 School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dean Playground
    440 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bears/Pacific Street Garden
    1,000 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Barclays Center Stadium or arena
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Dean St Baptist Church House of worship
    650 feet
  2. St Augustine RC Church House of worship
    950 feet

Fire and police

  1. 78th Precinct Police station
    360 feet
  2. Engine 219/Ladder 105 Fire station
    520 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    940 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,200 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    1,150 feet
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 89 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bergen Street or Flatbush Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.