Flatbush Avenue & Maple Street

Flatbush Avenue and Maple Street meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Willink Hill in Prospect Park is 850 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 ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 39 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
630 feet · 2 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Flatbush Av/Midwood St · B41
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 1 listed historic place and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Maple Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 630 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    630 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 …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkside Av Q
    0.4 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/Midwood St, 140 feet away, for the B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Midwood St B41 · Shelter
    140 feet
    B41
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Flatbush Avenue and Maple Street.

  • 41 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Maple St & Flatbush Ave 24 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    520 feet
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2023.

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
67 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,200 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 1939.

Since 2014 at least 70 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and March 2023, 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 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

North side of Maple Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Maple Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 308995.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 241 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Georgian, and mostly built between 1898 and 1917.

  1. Chester Court Wall Designated landmark
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    640 feet
  2. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    720 feet
  3. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    980 feet
Show all 4
  1. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    850 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    870 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Playground
    970 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    630 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and 14 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Maple Street.

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