Flatbush Avenue & Troy Avenue

Flatbush Avenue and Troy Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flatlands, Brooklyn. The corner is also named John A. Cortese Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Thomas Aquinas Church is 1,030 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatbush Av/Avenue P, is 250 feet away for the B9 and B41, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Flatbush Av/Avenue P · B9, B41
Within a walk
6 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatbush Avenue & Troy Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Avenue P, 250 feet away, for the B9 and B41.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Avenue P B9, B41
    250 feet
    B9 B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …
  2. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 38 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    630 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

This corner is also named John A. Cortese Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the hedge maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John A. Cortese Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Flatbush Avenue (west side).

East side of Flatbush Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Troy Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 319523 and 320436.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Congregation Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    590 feet
  2. Midwood Catholic Academy School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Trust Triangle
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Flatlands Library
    480 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Aquinas Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,180 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    760 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Troy Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.