Flatbush Avenue & Park Place

Flatbush Avenue and Park Place meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 3,020 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church stands 580 feet away, and I.S. 340 is 1,150 feet away. The nearest subway, 7 Av, is about a minute on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 61 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
7 Av
60 feet · 1 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Flatbush Av/Park Pl · B41, B69, B116
Within a walk
20 places
6 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Park Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 7 Av, 60 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av B, Q
    60 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    1,010 feet
    2 3
  2. Bergen St 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Park Pl, 60 feet away, for the B41, B69 and B116.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Park Pl B41, B69, B116
    60 feet
    B41 B69 B116

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …
  2. B69 …
  3. B116 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Park Place.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 7 Ave & Park Pl 25 docks in all
    180 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 535 Carlton Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,020 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 296th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,088 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
35 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Prospect Heights
Elevation
94 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and July 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-4PM

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-7:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 330477.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 464 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1871 and 1886.

  1. Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist Designated landmark
    330 feet
  2. Grace United Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    400 feet
  3. St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. The Nook Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    470 feet
  2. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  3. Berkeley-Carroll School
    1,050 feet
Show all 9
  1. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    730 feet
  2. Park Slope Child Care Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet
  3. I.S. 340 School
    1,150 feet
  4. Bpos of Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet
  5. M.S. K266 - Park Place Community Middle School
    1,290 feet
  6. P.S. K077 School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Prospect Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    870 feet
  3. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace United Methodist Church Landmark
    440 feet
  2. Memorial Presbyterian Church Landmark
    760 feet
  3. St Augustine RC Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    310 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 61 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Park Place.

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