Florence Avenue & Knight Court

Florence Avenue and Knight Court meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The nearest bus stop, Gerritsen Av/Gotham Av, is 0.3 miles away for the B31 and BM4. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1945, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Florence Avenue & Knight Court Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gerritsen Av/Gotham Av, 0.3 miles away, for the B31 and BM4.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gerritsen Av/Gotham Av B31, BM4
    0.3 miles
    B31 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B31 …
  2. BM4 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2402 Knapp Street Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.4 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2013.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
46
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 300 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 1920 and 1945.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
  • A listed public place within a five-minute walk

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

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