Flatbush Avenue & Midwood Street

Flatbush Avenue and Midwood Street meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. John Hus Moravian Church is 490 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about three 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 40 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
890 feet · 3 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
160 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 & Midwood Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 890 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    890 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, 160 feet away, for the B41.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    780 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 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

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
64 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 1962.

Since 2014 at least 54 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 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).

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 Midwood Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Midwood Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 311755 and 329469.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 284 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Georgian, and mostly built between 1898 and 1915.

  1. Chester Court Wall Designated landmark
    520 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Prospect Park.

  1. Peter & Willie Statue by Otto Neals, 1997
    760 feet
  2. Washington Irving Memorial Bust by James Wilson Alexander MacDonald, 1871
    780 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
    510 feet
  2. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
  3. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,110 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    1,130 feet
  3. Lincoln Road Playground
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Manor Historic District Listed historic place
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    490 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    840 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 40 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Midwood Street.

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