Flatbush Avenue & Rutland Road

Flatbush Avenue and Rutland Road meet at a three-way junction in Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The statue “Peter & Willie” is 690 feet away, and the bust “Washington Irving Memorial” is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, Prospect Park, is about four minutes on foot, for the B, Q and S. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 44 places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Prospect Park
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · B, Q, S
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Flatbush Av/Chester Ct · B41
Within a walk
4 places
3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 religious building, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Rutland Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Prospect Park, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. Prospect Park B, Q, S
    1,150 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
    0.3 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/Chester Ct, 240 feet away, for the B41.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Chester Ct B41
    240 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Flatbush Ave & Fenimore St 24 docks in all
    300 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
    1,040 feet
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

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
63 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,300 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 1926 and 1941.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and January 2019, 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 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

North side of Rutland Road

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Rutland Road

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 329469 and 338604.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 261 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1898 and 1915.

  1. Chester Court Wall Designated landmark
    340 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
    690 feet
  2. Washington Irving Memorial Bust by James Wilson Alexander MacDonald, 1871
    770 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. The Maple Street School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    250 feet
  2. Amy's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    710 feet
  3. Lefferts Garden Promise Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. John Hus Moravian Church House of worship
    500 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,250 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 places to eat and 17 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 Rutland Road.

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