Flatlands Avenue & East 82nd Street

Flatlands Avenue and East 82nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Explore Excel Charter School-Upper School Campus is 630 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/E 82 St, is 60 feet away for the B6 and B82, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
21 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Flatlands Av/E 82 St · B6, B82
Within a walk
8 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & East 82nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/E 82 St, 60 feet away, for the B6 and B82.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/E 82 St B6, B82
    60 feet
    B6 B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8401 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    730 feet
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2023

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
12 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1960 and 1965.

Since 2014 at least 2 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

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
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 82nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 82nd Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. The Bright Little Scholars Centers Tree Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    210 feet
  2. Explore Excel Charter School-Upper School Campus School
    630 feet
  3. I.S. 068 Isaac Bildersee School
    630 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bildersee Playground
    60 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Miracles RC Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    730 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,020 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 15 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 82nd Street or Flatlands Avenue.

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