Flatlands Avenue & East 86th Street

Flatlands Avenue and East 86th 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. In 2025, 1,159 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Our Lady of Miracles RC Church is 290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/E 86 St, is 110 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 religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Flatlands Av/E 86 St · B6, B82
Within a walk
11 places
7 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & East 86th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/E 86 St, 110 feet away, for the B6 and B82.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/E 86 St B6, B82
    110 feet
    B6 B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8401 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    520 feet
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.8 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.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,159 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 689th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 464 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
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 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1970.

Since 2014 at least 4 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 86th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 86th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Canarsie Ascend Middle School
    530 feet
  2. Clarkson Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet
  3. The Bright Little Scholars Centers Tree Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bildersee Playground
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Miracles RC Church House of worship
    290 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and ten 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 86th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.