Flatbush Avenue & Clarendon Road

Flatbush Avenue and Clarendon Road meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Fernande Valme Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fernande Valme Ministries is 180 feet away. The nearest subway, Cortelyou Rd, is about ten minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cortelyou Rd
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Flatbush Av/Clarendon Rd · B41
Within a walk
16 places
10 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Clarendon Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cortelyou Rd, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Garden Stops” (1994) by Patsy Norvell at the Cortelyou Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Clarendon Rd, 140 feet away, for the B41.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Clarendon Rd B41
    140 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Clarendon Road.

  • 34 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beverley Rd & Flatbush Ave 30 docks in all
    890 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1261 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 20 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 May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2018
  • Turn calming, January 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40 and 45 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Fernande Valme Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 2,900 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 1924 and 1951.

Since 2014 at least 107 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Fernande Valme Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

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

North side of Clarendon Road

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

South side of Clarendon Road

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 302638, 302639, 312492 and 331750.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Mediterranean, and built in 1913.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school
  • 1 theater or concert hall
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    290 feet
  2. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    430 feet
  3. St. Mark's Umc Head Start Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Starting Point Serv - St. Marks School
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Ditmas Park Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,180 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Kings Theatre Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    180 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Cortelyou Rd House of worship
    1,040 feet
  3. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway House of worship
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. St Marks Church United Methodist House of worship
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and 28 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Clarendon Road or Flatbush Avenue.

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