Flatlands Avenue & East 107th Street

Flatlands Avenue and East 107th Street meet at a three-way junction in Canarsie, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Breukelen development. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Science and Medicine Middle School is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, East 105 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
East 105 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Flatlands Av/E 108 St · B60, B82
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & East 107th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is East 105 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. East 105 St L
    0.4 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Canarsie
1 line
  1. L …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Crescendo” (2007) by Michael Ingui at the East 105 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/E 108 St, 110 feet away, for the B60 and B82.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/E 108 St B60, B82
    110 feet
    B60 B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 10802 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    1,030 feet
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2014
  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
42 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1951 and 1960.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Breukelen development.

Trees

Nineteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese pagoda tree and the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 107th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of East 107th Street

  • No parking 5 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

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. A Plus Kidz Academy School
    520 feet
  2. The Science and Medicine Middle School
    630 feet
  3. Breukelen Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
Show all 5
  1. Breukelen Recreation Rooms Head Start/UPK Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet
  2. Recreation Rooms and Settlement Pre-K
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fresh Creek Nature Preserve Nature area
    520 feet
  2. Breukelen Ballfields Park
    870 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Breukelen Community Center
    1,180 feet
  2. Canarsie Post Office
    1,260 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #1 Satellite Police station
    310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food World Supermarket Supermarket
    350 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 107th Street or Flatlands Avenue.

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