Flatbush Avenue & Clarkson Avenue

Flatbush Avenue and Clarkson Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Umma Park is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Parkside Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 46 places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Parkside Av
840 feet · 3 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Clarkson Av/Flatbush Av · B12
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Clarkson Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Parkside Av, 840 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Parkside Av Q
    840 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Church Av B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q
  2. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.5 miles
    B Q S

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Clarkson Av/Flatbush Av, 40 feet away, for the B12.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clarkson Av/Flatbush Av B12
    40 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 55 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Parkside Ave & Flatbush Ave 25 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70 and 71 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,000 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 1940.

Since 2014 at least 348 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 55 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2020 and September 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Clarkson Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Clarkson Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Flatbush Avenue

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 333047 and 339095.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 29 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Neoclassical, and built between 1909 and 1915.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. The David Foster Pre-School Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    600 feet
  2. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Umma Park
    730 feet
  2. Umma Park Playground
    770 feet
  3. Prospect Park
    1,070 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Duane Joseph Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    840 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary Pentecostal Church House of worship
    410 feet
  2. Bethanie SDA French Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    330 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    970 feet
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,040 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    270 feet

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 46 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Clarkson Avenue, Flatbush Avenue or Woodruff 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.