Flatlands Avenue & Remsen Avenue

Flatlands Avenue and Remsen Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 35 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. Great Commission Christian School is 790 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/Remsen Av, is 30 feet away for the B6, B82 and B82 SBS, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
35 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Flatlands Av/Remsen Av · B6, B82, B82 SBS
Within a walk
19 places
8 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & Remsen Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/Remsen Av, 30 feet away, for the B6, B82 and B82 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatlands Av/Remsen Av B6, B82, B82 SBS
    30 feet
    B6 B82 B82 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …
  2. B82 …
  3. B82 SBS …

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, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8401 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 35 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2021
  • Turn calming, February 2024

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
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 800 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 1925 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Harvest Gold' Mongolian linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flatlands Avenue

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

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Remsen Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Remsen Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Great Commission Christian School
    790 feet
  2. Raven's Early Childhood Education Center Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  3. Raven's Elementary School
    1,040 feet
Show all 10
  1. Canarsie Ascend Middle School
    1,060 feet
  2. Raven Learning Center Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,120 feet
  3. Raven's Day Care School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,120 feet
  4. Explore Excel Charter School
    1,200 feet
  5. P.S. 114 Ryder Elementary School
    1,200 feet
  6. Clarkson Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet
  7. Big Minds, Tiny Hands Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Remsen Playground
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Canarsie Community Reformed Church House of worship
    940 feet
  2. Sephardic Jewish Center of Canarsie House of worship
    990 feet
  3. Our Lady of Miracles RC Church House of worship
    1,100 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    100 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and six 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flatlands Avenue or Remsen Avenue.

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