Flatbush Avenue & Sterling Place

Flatbush Avenue and Sterling Place meet at a four-way crossing in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Prospect Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Grand Army Plaza is 470 feet away. The nearest subway, 7 Av, is about two minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 43 places to eat.

Safety record
26 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
7 Av
450 feet · 2 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Flatbush Av/Sterling Pl · B41, B69
Within a walk
15 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Sterling Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 7 Av, 450 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av B, Q
    450 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
    530 feet
    2 3
  2. Bergen St 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Sterling Pl, 100 feet away, for the B41 and B69.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Sterling Pl B41, B69
    100 feet
    B41 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Park Pl & Carlton Ave 27 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.8 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 32 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 26 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 May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
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)
Park Slope
Elevation
107 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 56 signs on these blocks
  • 25 different rules
  • 8 active meters
  • 6 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2022 and May 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 Sterling Place (south side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Sterling Place (south side).

East side of Flatbush Avenue

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

West side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 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 2 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

North side of Sterling Place

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306636, 311175, 336102, 336103, 336666 and 337867.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

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

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 360 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec. They were mostly built between 1871 and 1888.

  1. Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist Designated landmark
    320 feet
  2. Grace United Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    510 feet
  3. The Berkeley Institute Designated landmark
    560 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Grand Army Plaza.

  1. Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene Bust by John Massey Rhind, 1905
    690 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. The Nook Park Slope Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    600 feet
  2. I.S. 340 School
    680 feet
  3. Park Slope Child Care Collective Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    890 feet
Show all 6
  1. Montessori Day School of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
  2. Eladia's Kids Parent Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  3. Berkeley-Carroll School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grand Army Plaza
    470 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling Place Listed historic place
    100 feet
  2. Skene Monument Monument or memorial
    710 feet
  3. Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex Listed historic place
    790 feet
Show all 4
  1. Prospect Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace United Methodist Church Landmark
    530 feet
  2. Memorial Presbyterian Church Landmark
    890 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    330 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    790 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 43 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Sterling 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.