Flatlands Avenue & East 77th Street

Flatlands Avenue and East 77th Street meet at a three-way junction in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 255 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Brooklyn Bridge Academy is 820 feet away, and Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School is 820 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/E 78 St, is 40 feet away for the B6 and B82. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, seven of them schools, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Flatlands Av/E 78 St · B6, B82
Within a walk
9 places
7 schools, 1 nature area and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & East 77th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/E 78 St, 40 feet away, for the B6 and B82.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/E 78 St B6, B82
    40 feet
    B6 B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 7702 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    at this corner
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 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.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 255 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,540th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 113 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
11 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1960.

Trees

Nineteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 77th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 77th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Academy for Conservation and the Environment School
    820 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Academy School
    820 feet
  3. Brooklyn Community High School for Excellence and Equity School
    820 feet
Show all 7
  1. Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School
    820 feet
  2. Uncommon Preparatory CHS School
    820 feet
  3. Uncommon Preparatory Charter High School
    820 feet
  4. Victory Collegiate High School
    820 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Paerdegat Basin Park Nature area
    1,050 feet
  2. Bildersee Playground
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    320 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    610 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 11 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 corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 77th 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.