Flatlands Avenue & Harden Street

Flatlands Avenue and Harden Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Midwood Catholic Academy is 630 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av, is 190 feet away for the B82, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av · B82
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & Harden Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av, 190 feet away, for the B82.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av B82
    190 feet
    B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

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

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1,090 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1950.

Trees

Eighteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2021 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

West side of Harden Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Midwood Catholic Academy School
    630 feet
  2. BBB Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Serenity Community Garden
    620 feet
  2. Sarsfield Playground
    780 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Flatlands Library
    1,210 feet
  2. Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Aquinas Church House of worship
    880 feet
  2. Flatlands Reformed Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    300 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    550 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    580 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatlands Avenue or Harden Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.