Flushing Avenue & Taaffe Place

Flushing Avenue and Taaffe Place meet at a three-way junction in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Taaffe Playground is 780 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flushing Av/Kent Av, is 160 feet away for the B57, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, eight of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
Flushing Av/Kent Av · B57
Within a walk
21 places
8 schools, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Taaffe Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

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

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Kent Av B57
    160 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Flushing Avenue.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wallabout St & Kent Ave 23 docks in all
    580 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 711 Kent Avenue Gas station
    1,000 feet
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 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
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
33
Police precinct
79 and 90 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Clinton Hill
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 between 2002 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 77 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2024 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Taaffe Place

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

West side of Taaffe Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 8 schools
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Bnos Israel School
    590 feet
  2. Gan Bnos Yisroel Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    750 feet
  3. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    750 feet
Show all 14
  1. Yeshiva Nachlas Tzvi D'Krula Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  2. Jolly Baby Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    820 feet
  3. Bnos Spinka Boys School
    920 feet
  4. Child care center at 77-87 Wallabout Street School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,020 feet
  5. Cong Yeshuos Moshe of Williamsburg School
    1,140 feet
  6. Darkei Tshivo of Dinov School
    1,140 feet
  7. Talmud Torah Tzemach Tzadik Viznitz School
    1,140 feet
  8. Omni Childhood Center - Heyward School
    1,180 feet
  9. P.S./I.S. 157 the Benjamin Franklin Health & Science Academy School
    1,220 feet
  10. Ach Tov Vchesed School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet
  11. Hychel Hatorah School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Classon Playground
    280 feet
  2. Steuben Playground
    580 feet
  3. Classon Triangle
    600 feet
Show all 5
  1. Taaffe Playground
    780 feet
  2. Penn Triangle Playground
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. One Stop Kosher Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two 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 Flushing Avenue or Taaffe Place.

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.