Flatbush Avenue & East 48th Street

Flatbush Avenue and East 48th Street 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. In 2025, 7,544 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Engine 309/Ladder 159 firehouse is 130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatbush Av/Fillmore Av, is 110 feet away for the B9 and B41, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places and ten places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Flatbush Av/Fillmore Av · B9, B41
Within a walk
7 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 fire station and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & East 48th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Fillmore Av, 110 feet away, for the B9 and B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Fillmore Av B9, B41
    110 feet
    B9 B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …
  2. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2255 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    280 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.3 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 7,544 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 95th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 3,919 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and October 2021, 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 East 48th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

West side of East 48th Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 320689 and 324324.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 207 Elizabeth G. Leary School
    970 feet
  2. First Noah's Ark Universal Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Trust Triangle
    520 feet
  2. Power Playground
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Flatbush House of worship
    870 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Ryder Retail Post Office
    310 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 309/Ladder 159 Fire station
    130 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    730 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Kings Plaza Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and three 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 48th Street or Flatbush Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.