Flatbush Avenue & Hawthorne Street

Flatbush Avenue and Hawthorne Street meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Church of the Evangel is 1,010 feet away. The nearest subway, Parkside Av, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and 50 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Parkside Av
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Flatbush Av/Hawthorne St · B41
Within a walk
10 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Hawthorne Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Parkside Av, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Parkside Av Q
    1,140 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    0.3 miles
    B Q S

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Hawthorne St, 130 feet away, for the B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Hawthorne St B41
    130 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 49 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
    310 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
    0.3 miles
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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
60 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,300 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and January 2025, 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).

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

North side of Hawthorne Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Hawthorne Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 329471 and 329923.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 129 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Tudor Revival and neo-Tudor, and mostly built between 1905 and 1915.

  1. Chester Court Wall Designated landmark
    520 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    320 feet
  2. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet
  3. Hawthorne Corners Day Care Center Pre-K
    1,020 feet
Show all 6
  1. City-Pro Group, Inc. - Bedford Ave School
    1,080 feet
  2. Blue Petals Utmost Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,210 feet
  3. High Definition Kids Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Duane Joseph Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    990 feet
  2. Church of the Evangel Listed historic place
    1,010 feet
  3. Calvary Pentecostal Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    150 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,220 feet
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    680 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 50 places to eat and 18 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Hawthorne Street.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.