Flatlands Avenue & East 100th Street

Flatlands Avenue and East 100th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,064 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Olympus Academy is 340 feet away. The nearest subway, Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy, is about five minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Flatlands Av/E 101 St · B60
Within a walk
13 places
6 schools, 2 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & East 100th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/E 101 St, 100 feet away, for the B60.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/E 101 St B60
    100 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1512 Rockaway Parkway Gas station
    1,060 feet
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.4 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.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, September 2022
  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,064 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 730th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 479 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1955 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 100th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 100th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 post office
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Lenox Academy M. S. 961 School
    340 feet
  2. Olympus Academy School
    340 feet
  3. Khyle-Brenaj Early Childhood Ed Ctr School
    680 feet
Show all 7
  1. Canarsie Ascend Charter School
    930 feet
  2. I.S. 211 John Wilson School
    1,130 feet
  3. Uncommon Canarsie Charter Es School
    1,130 feet
  4. Fob School of Health Careers Trade or language school
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 100% Playground
    340 feet
  2. Wilson Playground
    1,280 feet

Health care

  1. Four Seasons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Canarsie Post Office
    600 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food World Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    570 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 100th Street or Flatlands Avenue.

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