Flatlands Avenue & East 37th Street

Flatlands Avenue and East 37th Street (north-east) meet at a three-way junction in Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fraser Square is 1,030 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kings Hwy/E 35 St, is 1,110 feet away for the B7 and B82, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,110 feet
Kings Hwy/E 35 St · B7, B82
Within a walk
11 places
7 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & East 37th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/E 35 St, 1,110 feet away, for the B7 and B82.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/E 35 St B7, B82
    1,110 feet
    B7 B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 22 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.6 miles

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.

  • 3 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 September 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 37th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 37th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. BBB Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    340 feet
  2. Midwood Catholic Academy School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sarsfield Playground
    400 feet
  2. Fraser Square
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Aquinas Church House of worship
    1,020 feet
  2. Congregation Adath Yeshurun of Flatbush House of worship
    1,030 feet
  3. Kings Highway United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,140 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

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 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 37th Street or Flatlands Avenue.

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