Flatbush Avenue & Fenimore Street

Flatbush Avenue and Fenimore Street meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. John Hus Moravian Church is 680 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about five minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 47 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Flatbush Av/Chester Ct · B41
Within a walk
5 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 1 religious building and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Fenimore Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.3 miles
    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 …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkside Av Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

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/Chester Ct, 50 feet away, for the B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Chester Ct B41
    50 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 36 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Flatbush Ave & Fenimore St 24 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1,300 feet
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    3 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.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
40
Police precinct
71
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
62 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,500 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 1926 and 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and February 2021, 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 Fenimore Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Fenimore Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 301291 and 329471.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 198 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1898 and 1915.

  1. Chester Court Wall Designated landmark
    310 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Prospect Park.

  1. Peter & Willie Statue by Otto Neals, 1997
    730 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    20 feet
  2. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    450 feet
  3. City-Pro Group, Inc. - Bedford Ave School
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Blue Petals Utmost Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    680 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    320 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    990 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 47 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fenimore Street or Flatbush 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.