Flushing Avenue & Clermont Avenue

Flushing Avenue and Clermont Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sacred Heart Church is 500 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flushing Av/Vanderbilt Av, is 160 feet away for the B57 and B69, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
9 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Flushing Av/Vanderbilt Av · B57, B69
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Clermont Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Vanderbilt Av, 160 feet away, for the B57 and B69.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Vanderbilt Av B57, B69
    160 feet
    B57 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Clermont Avenue and Flushing Avenue.

  • 28 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Flushing Ave & Clermont Ave 23 docks in all
    150 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 168 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    740 feet
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33 and 35 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fort Greene
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 98 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Clermont Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Clermont Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Greene Hill School
    850 feet
  2. United Talmudical Academy 25 School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Oxport Playground
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sacred Heart Church House of worship
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and nine 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Clermont Avenue or Flushing Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, 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.