Flatbush Avenue & St Marks Avenue

Flatbush Avenue and St Marks Avenue 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, 34 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Engine 219/Ladder 105 firehouse is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about two minutes on foot, and ten subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 99 places to eat.

Safety record
26 hurt
34 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
430 feet · 2 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Flatbush Av/Saint Marks Av · B67
Within a walk
20 places
7 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & St Marks Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 430 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 10 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St 2, 3
    430 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. 7 Av B, Q
    980 feet
    B Q
  2. Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 B D N Q R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Saint Marks Av, 90 feet away, for the B67.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Saint Marks Av B67
    90 feet
    B67

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Prospect Pl & 6 Ave 25 docks in all
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.5 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 34 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 26 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 6 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 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
69 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 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 307 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm, 2 hour passenger vehicles Saturday 8am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (west side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 4pm on St Marks Avenue (south side).

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of St Marks Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 327874, 327875 and 333168.

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet, 371 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1870 and 1885.

  1. The Carleton Club Designated landmark
    150 feet
  2. Church of God Designated landmark
    630 feet
  3. St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church School Designated landmark
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    280 feet
  2. Wonderforest Nature Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    790 feet
  3. Bridges: a School for Exploration and Equity School
    850 feet
Show all 8
  1. Design Works High School
    850 feet
  2. Bpos of Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    930 feet
  3. M.S. K266 - Park Place Community Middle School
    1,040 feet
  4. P.S. K077 School
    1,040 feet
  5. The Nook Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dean Playground
    660 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    870 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Barclays Center Stadium or arena
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Augustine RC Church Landmark
    760 feet
  2. Dean St Baptist Church House of worship
    870 feet
  3. Grace United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Fire and police

  1. 78th Precinct Police station
    570 feet
  2. Engine 219/Ladder 105 Fire station
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    730 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    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 99 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 Flatbush Avenue or St Marks Avenue.

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