Flatbush Avenue & Dorchester Road

Flatbush Avenue and Dorchester Road meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway is 1,170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd, is 140 feet away for the B41, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd · B41
Within a walk
13 places
10 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Dorchester Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

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

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 34 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beverley Rd & Flatbush Ave 30 docks in all
    1,020 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 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 31 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and January 2025, 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 Dorchester Road

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

South side of Dorchester Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 10 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 303074 and 331749.

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Mediterranean, and built in 1913.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    160 feet
  2. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    550 feet

Health care

  1. Ditmas Park Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    310 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Cortelyou Rd House of worship
    1,160 feet
  3. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway House of worship
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 29 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dorchester Road or Flatbush Avenue.

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