Flatlands Avenue & Ryder Street at Coleman Street

Flatlands Avenue, Ryder Street and Coleman Street meet at a five-way junction in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Thomas Aquinas Church is 390 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av, is 600 feet away for the B82, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av · B82
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & Ryder Street at Coleman Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flatlands Av/Flatbush Av, 600 feet away, for the B82.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 31 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1,190 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 nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

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
16 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2014 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Coleman Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Flatlands Avenue

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

South side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Ryder Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ryder Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. BBB Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    310 feet
  2. Midwood Catholic Academy School
    530 feet
  3. Congregation Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sarsfield Playground
    50 feet
  2. Fraser Square
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Aquinas Church House of worship
    390 feet
  2. Kings Highway United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    620 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    790 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    930 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and five 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 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Coleman Street, Flatlands Avenue or Ryder 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.