Flatbush Avenue & East Drive

Flatbush Avenue and East Drive meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Prospect Park is 100 feet away, and Lefferts Historic House is 320 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about two minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them park features, and 11 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
650 feet · 2 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Flatbush Av/Empire Blvd · B41
Within a walk
11 places
3 park features, 1 day care or pre-K site and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & East Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 650 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    650 feet
    B Q S

Next trains at this station

Northbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
  3. S …

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Empire Blvd, 350 feet away, for the B41.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Empire Blvd B41 · Shelter
    350 feet
    B41
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on East Drive and Flatbush Avenue.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Flatbush Ave & Ocean Ave 41 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

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

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1,080 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
City Council district
35 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Park
Elevation
86 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph

Homes

About 400 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 1930 and 1936.

Since 2014 at least 32 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 133 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

Meters on the blocks meeting at this corner are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 10am to 7pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 9am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (east side).

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 330933.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1777 and 1913.

  1. Brooklyn Central Office, Bureau of Fire Communications Designated landmark
    420 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet
  2. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    770 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    100 feet
  2. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    150 feet
  3. Carousel in Prospect Park Park feature
    380 feet
Show all 6
  1. Prospect Park Zoo Zoo or aquarium · landmark
    600 feet
  2. Midwood in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,110 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Playground
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    880 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Historic House Museum · landmark
    320 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East Drive or Flatbush Avenue.

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