Flatlands Avenue & East 96th Street

Flatlands Avenue and East 96th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 201 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Sephardic Jewish Center of Canarsie is 660 feet away. The nearest subway, Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy, is about four minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy
1,150 feet · 4 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Flatlands Av/E 96 St · B6
Within a walk
15 places
10 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & East 96th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy, 1,150 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy L
    1,150 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/E 96 St, 40 feet away, for the B6.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/E 96 St B6
    40 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1512 Rockaway Parkway Gas station
    280 feet
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2021

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 201 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,631st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 131 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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 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 1920 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the eastern redbud.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 96th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 96th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Flatlands Avenue

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

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 329174.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Fob School of Health Careers Trade or language school
    130 feet
  2. Khyle-Brenaj Early Childhood Ed Ctr School
    550 feet
  3. Canarsie Ascend Charter School
    560 feet

Health care

  1. Four Seasons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    930 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Canarsie Library
    780 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sephardic Jewish Center of Canarsie House of worship
    660 feet
  2. Canarsie Community Reformed Church House of worship
    820 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,100 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 96th 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.