Flushing Avenue & Thornton Street

Flushing Avenue and Thornton Street meet at a three-way junction in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Beginning With Children Charter School is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, eight of them schools, and 35 places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1993 and 2021, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
700 feet · 3 min on foot · J, M
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Flushing Av/Thornton St · B57
Within a walk
22 places
8 schools, 6 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Thornton Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 700 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av J, M
    700 feet
    J M

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. M …

Also within a walk

  1. Lorimer St J, M
    0.3 miles
    J M
  2. Flushing Av G
    0.3 miles
    G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Migration” (2006) by Robin Holder at the Flushing Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Thornton St, 120 feet away, for the B57.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Thornton St B57
    120 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 45 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Broadway & Whipple St 27 docks in all
    810 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 212 Harrison Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 7 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,140 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 July 2016.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11206
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33 and 36 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
79 and 90 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Williamsburg
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1993 and 2021.

Since 2014 at least 355 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 8 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 1 hospital
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Uta 110 School
    570 feet
  2. Beginning With Children Charter School
    740 feet
  3. P.S. 373 - Brooklyn Transition Center School
    740 feet
Show all 10
  1. Boricua College - Brooklyn College
    790 feet
  2. Per Scholas Trade or language school
    1,030 feet
  3. Beginning With Children Charter School 2 School
    1,080 feet
  4. P.S. 059 the Dawn Best School
    1,200 feet
  5. Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 2 School
    1,200 feet
  6. Ohel Chaya School
    1,260 feet
  7. Bais Ruchel High School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bartlett Playground
    500 feet
  2. Charlie's Place Playground
    730 feet
  3. Sumner Playground
    1,220 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Pfizer Sites Development Public space
    1,290 feet

Health care

  1. Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center Hospital
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. All Saints RC Church House of worship
    190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Metropolitan Post Office Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    960 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Green Corner Fish & Farmers Market Supermarket
    1,110 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  3. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    810 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 places to eat and 19 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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Flushing Avenue or Thornton Street.

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.