Flatlands Avenue & Louisiana Avenue

Flatlands Avenue and Louisiana Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Breukelen development. Between 2021 and 2025, 41 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Breukelen Ballfields is 60 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/Louisiana Av, is 50 feet away for the B82 and B82 SBS, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and ten places to eat.

Safety record
30 hurt
41 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Flatlands Av/Louisiana Av · B82, B82 SBS
Within a walk
2 places
1 nature area and 1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & Louisiana Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/Louisiana Av, 50 feet away, for the B82 and B82 SBS.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/Louisiana Av B82, B82 SBS
    50 feet
    B82 B82 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …
  2. B82 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 10802 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 41 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 30 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
69 and 75 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-New Lots
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 2025.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Breukelen development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 62 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

East side of Louisiana Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Louisiana Avenue

  • Bus layover only 3 signs MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-9AM 3PM-MIDNIGHT NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No parking 30 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Breukelen Ballfields Park
    60 feet
  2. Fresh Creek Nature Preserve Nature area
    580 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food World Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and two 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 corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatlands Avenue or Louisiana Avenue.

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