Flatbush Avenue & Brooklyn Avenue

Flatbush Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. It is 550 feet to the 63rd Precinct. The nearest bus stop, Flatbush Av/Brooklyn Av, is 30 feet away for the B41, and 12 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Flatbush Av/Brooklyn Av · B41
Within a walk
8 places
4 religious buildings, 1 listed historic place and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Brooklyn Av, 30 feet away, for the B41.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Brooklyn Av B41
    30 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1760 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    250 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and May 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 (west side).

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 321886.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 police station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 119 Amersfort School
    1,030 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Amersfort Park
    810 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Van Nuyse, Joost, House Listed historic place
    990 feet

Fire and police

  1. 63rd Precinct Police station
    550 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ALDI Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Flatbush Avenue.

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