Flatbush Avenue & Flatlands Avenue

Flatbush Avenue and Flatlands Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,612 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. St Thomas Aquinas Church is 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av, is 60 feet away for the B82, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
31 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av · B82
Within a walk
11 places
5 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Flatlands Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av, 60 feet away, for the B82.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av B82
    60 feet
    B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 28 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    790 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 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2015
  • Turn calming, July 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,612 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 518th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 831 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
45
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1950.

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
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7AM-7:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7AM-7:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 327676, 331001, 332339 and 340245.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Midwood Catholic Academy School
    330 feet
  2. BBB Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  3. Congregation Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sarsfield Playground
    480 feet
  2. Serenity Community Garden
    930 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Flatlands Library
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Aquinas Church House of worship
    570 feet
  2. Flatlands Reformed Church House of worship
    1,290 feet
  3. Kings Highway United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    80 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    540 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    250 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    390 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Flatlands Avenue.

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