Flatbush Avenue & Ocean Avenue

Flatbush Avenue and Ocean Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 61 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 19,210 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Willink Hill in Prospect Park is 40 feet away, and Prospect Park Zoo is 900 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about a minute on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
40 hurt
61 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
350 feet · 1 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Flatbush Av/Empire Blvd · B41
Within a walk
13 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 park features and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Ocean Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 350 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    350 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 …

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/Empire Blvd, 60 feet away, for the B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Empire Blvd B41 · Shelter
    60 feet
    B41
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Flatbush Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Flatbush Ave & Ocean Ave 41 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 517 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    790 feet
  2. 375 Lefferts Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 61 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 40 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 6 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 1997
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 19,210 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 22nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 9,573 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11225
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 9
City Council district
35 and 39 and 40 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
71 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate
Elevation
83 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph

Homes

About 900 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 1938.

Since 2014 at least 32 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 102 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and June 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Empire Boulevard

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 27 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Farmers market 1 sign FARMERS MARKET ONLY SATURDAY 6AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 8 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 305130.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and six buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1777 and 1913.

  1. Brooklyn Central Office, Bureau of Fire Communications Designated landmark
    340 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 park features
  • 2 schools
  • 1 museum
  • 1 park
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    460 feet
  2. Empyrean Team Training Center Trade or language school
    480 feet
  3. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
Show all 5
  1. Ebbets Field Middle School
    1,270 feet
  2. P.S. 375 Jackie Robinson School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willink Hill in Prospect Park Park feature
    40 feet
  2. Prospect Park
    80 feet
  3. Carousel in Prospect Park Park feature
    570 feet
Show all 5
  1. Prospect Park Zoo Zoo or aquarium · landmark
    900 feet
  2. Lincoln Road Playground
    940 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Washington Empire Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    580 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefferts Historic House Museum · landmark
    600 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    860 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Empire Boulevard, Flatbush Avenue or Ocean Avenue.

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