Flatbush Avenue & Vanderveer Place

Flatbush Avenue and Vanderveer Place meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fernande Valme Ministries is 490 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd, is 80 feet away for the B41, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd · B41
Within a walk
12 places
8 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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Flatbush Avenue & Vanderveer Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd, 80 feet away, for the B41.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd B41
    80 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 33 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beverley Rd & Flatbush Ave 30 docks in all
    1,200 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1261 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1,240 feet
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 9 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 March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40 and 45 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1928 and 1952.

Since 2014 at least 47 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and July 2024, 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 7 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-6AM

North side of Vanderveer Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Vanderveer Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 304574 and 337181.

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Mediterranean, and built in 1913.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    30 feet
  2. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    740 feet
  3. New Generation Learning Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Health care

  1. Ditmas Park Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    490 feet
  2. Jehovahs Witnesses Cortelyou Rd House of worship
    1,180 feet
  3. Pentecostal Church of God Bibleway House of worship
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and 29 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatbush Avenue or Vanderveer Place.

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