Flatlands Avenue & Pennsylvania Avenue

Flatlands Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Spring Creek-Starrett City, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 104 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2026, 4,059 red-light camera tickets were recorded here through July 26. Spring Creek Library is 280 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Pennsylvania Av/Vandalia Av, is 470 feet away for the B82, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them schools, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
69 hurt
104 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
470 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Vandalia Av · B82
Within a walk
5 places
2 schools, 1 library and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & Pennsylvania Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Vandalia Av, 470 feet away, for the B82.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Vandalia Av B82
    470 feet
    B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …

Live arrivals

Pennsylvania Avenue carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1121 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    240 feet
  2. 1065 Elton Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 104 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 69 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 4,059 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket2026 so far
Northbound on Pennsylvania Avenue3,555
Westbound on Flatlands Avenue504
Total4,059

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
42
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Spring Creek-Starrett City
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

Homes

About 900 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 between 1998 and 2025.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese pagoda tree and the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Road tests only 8 signs NYS ROAD TEST ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

East side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Pennsylvania Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 339191.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Achievement First Aspire Charter School Middle School
    1,200 feet
  2. P.S. 306 Ethan Allen School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Ethan Allen Playground
    1,170 feet
  2. Breukelen Ballfields Park
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Spring Creek Library
    280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    250 feet

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 nine 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatlands Avenue or Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.