Flatbush Avenue & Prospect Place

Flatbush Avenue and Prospect Place meet at a four-way crossing in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 30 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Carleton Club stands 540 feet away, and Berkeley-Carroll School is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, 7 Av, is about two minutes on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 67 places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
30 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
7 Av
520 feet · 2 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
7 Av/Flatbush Av · B67, B69
Within a walk
23 places
7 religious buildings, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Prospect Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 7 Av, 520 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av B, Q
    520 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. Bergen St 2, 3
    880 feet
    2 3
  2. Grand Army Plaza 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av/Flatbush Av, 360 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av/Flatbush Av B67, B69 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    360 feet
    B67 B69
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 104 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 30 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 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 May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2021

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
81 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1875 and 1915.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 51 signs on these blocks
  • 22 different rules
  • 7 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2025 and September 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Prospect Place (both sides).

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 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 7 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 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs 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 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306436, 306437, 327876 and 330477.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 459 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1870 and 1885.

  1. The Carleton Club Designated landmark
    540 feet
  2. Grace United Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    710 feet
  3. St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church Designated landmark
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    180 feet
  2. The Nook Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    690 feet
  3. M.S. K266 - Park Place Community Middle School
    1,170 feet
Show all 11
  1. Park Slope Child Care Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    980 feet
  2. Bpos of Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
  3. P.S. K077 School
    1,170 feet
  4. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet
  5. Wonderforest Nature Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,250 feet
  6. Berkeley-Carroll School
    1,270 feet
  7. Bridges: a School for Exploration and Equity School
    1,310 feet
  8. Design Works High School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dean Playground
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    860 feet
  2. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace United Methodist Church House of worship
    800 feet
  2. St Augustine RC Church Landmark
    890 feet
  3. Memorial Presbyterian Church House of worship
    980 feet

Fire and police

  1. 78th Precinct Police station
    1,030 feet
  2. Engine 219/Ladder 105 Fire station
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles
  2. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 67 places to eat and nine food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Prospect Place.

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