Flatlands Avenue & East 78th Street

Flatlands Avenue and East 78th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bildersee Playground is 880 feet away, and Paerdegat Basin Park is 1,260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/E 78 St, is 250 feet away for the B6 and B82, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them schools, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Flatlands Av/E 78 St · B6, B82
Within a walk
11 places
7 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & East 78th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/E 78 St, 250 feet away, for the B6 and B82.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …
  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 Shore Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 7702 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    260 feet
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2020
  • Turn calming, July 2021

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
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • 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 in 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and February 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on East 78th Street (west side).

East side of East 78th Street

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

West side of East 78th Street

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

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Flatlands Avenue

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 330834.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Academy for Conservation and the Environment School
    1,090 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Academy School
    1,090 feet
  3. Brooklyn Community High School for Excellence and Equity School
    1,090 feet
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  1. Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School
    1,090 feet
  2. Uncommon Preparatory CHS School
    1,090 feet
  3. Uncommon Preparatory Charter High School
    1,090 feet
  4. Victory Collegiate High School
    1,090 feet
  5. The Bright Little Scholars Centers Tree Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bildersee Playground
    880 feet
  2. Paerdegat Basin Park Nature area
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Redwood House of worship
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    60 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    350 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 78th Street or Flatlands Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.