Flatlands Avenue & East 57th Street

Flatlands Avenue and East 57th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fox Playground is 1,080 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/E 57 St, is 100 feet away for the B82, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 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 & East 57th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/E 57 St, 100 feet away, for the B82.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/E 57 St B82
    100 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

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5828 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    550 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
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
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 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1966.

Trees

Seventeen 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
  • 19 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.

East side of East 57th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of East 57th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 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
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fox Playground
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Paerdegat Library
    1,140 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 5701 Avenue H Older adult center
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 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 five places to eat and two 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 nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 57th Street or Flatlands Avenue.

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