Flatlands Avenue & Williams Avenue

Flatlands Avenue and Williams Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Canarsie, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Breukelen development. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 3,619 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Fresh Creek Nature Preserve is 40 feet away, and Police Service Area #1 Satellite is 1,120 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Williams Av/Flatlands Av, is 60 feet away for the B60. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Williams Av/Flatlands Av · B60
Within a walk
3 places
1 nature area, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flatlands Avenue & Williams Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Williams Av/Flatlands Av, 60 feet away, for the B60.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Williams Av/Flatlands Av B60
    60 feet
    B60

Next buses at this stop

  1. B60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,619 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 236th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,283 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on Flatlands Avenue1,8841,007
Westbound on Flatlands Avenue1,7351,276
Total3,6192,283

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
42 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 190 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 1951.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flatlands Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Williams Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Williams Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 park
  • 1 police station

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fresh Creek Nature Preserve Nature area
    40 feet
  2. Breukelen Ballfields Park
    70 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #1 Satellite Police station
    1,120 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food World Supermarket Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and two 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 Williams Avenue.

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