Flatbush Avenue & Lenox Road

Flatbush Avenue and Lenox Road meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Flatbush Learning Center is 870 feet away. The nearest subway, Parkside Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 42 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Parkside Av
1,300 feet · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Flatbush Av/Caton Av · B41
Within a walk
9 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 libraries and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Lenox Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Parkside Av, 1,300 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Parkside Av Q
    1,300 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Church Av B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q

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/Caton Av, 100 feet away, for the B41.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Caton Av B41
    100 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 54 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Parkside Ave & Flatbush Ave 25 docks in all
    800 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. 2193 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 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
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
55 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 4,200 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 1925 and 1940.

Since 2014 at least 390 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

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
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2020 and August 2024, 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 TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Lenox Road

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Lenox Road

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 327843, 327844 and 339095.

Landmarks and historic districts

Three buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Neoclassical, and built between 1912 and 1913.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 libraries
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Blue Star of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  2. The David Foster Pre-School Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Umma Park
    1,200 feet
  2. Umma Park Playground
    1,240 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Duane Joseph Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Flatbush Learning Center Library
    870 feet
  2. Flatbush Library
    880 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary Pentecostal Church House of worship
    810 feet
  2. Bethanie SDA French Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,140 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,280 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    740 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 42 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Lenox Road.

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