Flatlands Avenue & Avenue I

Flatlands Avenue and Avenue I meet at a five-way junction in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,326 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Paerdegat Library is 820 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/E 57 St, is 260 feet away for the B82, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Flatlands Av/E 57 St · B82
Within a walk
6 places
2 religious buildings, 1 library and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & Avenue I Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/E 57 St, 260 feet away, for the B82.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/E 57 St B82
    260 feet
    B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …

Live arrivals

Flatlands Avenue carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, 7am to 7pm on Monday to Saturday.

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5828 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    230 feet
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,326 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 614th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 446 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
12 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two.

Trees

Nine trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue I

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue I

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of East 58th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 58th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 251 Paerdegat School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fox Playground
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Paerdegat Library
    820 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 5701 Avenue H Older adult center
    1,220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Georgetowne Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and five food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue I, East 58th Street or Flatlands Avenue.

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