Flushing Avenue & Porter Avenue

Flushing Avenue and Porter Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. La Finca Community Garden is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, Morgan Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings, and 42 places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
4 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Morgan Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Flushing Av/Knickerbocker Av · B57
Within a walk
5 places
3 religious buildings, 1 fire station and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Porter Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Morgan Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Morgan Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Jefferson St L
    0.3 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Knickerbocker Av, 100 feet away, for the B57.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Knickerbocker Av B57
    100 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Knickerbocker Ave & George St 23 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Meeker Avenue & Graham Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1119 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    380 feet
  2. 150 Noll Street Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1,160 feet
  3. 1074 Grand Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11237
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
34
Police precinct
83 and 90 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (West)
Elevation
24 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1931.

Since 2014 at least 22 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2014 and April 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Porter Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Porter Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. La Finca Community Garden
    530 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 237 Fire station
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 42 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flushing Avenue or Porter Avenue.

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