Flushing Avenue & Throop Avenue

Flushing Avenue and Throop Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 48 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. In 2025, 161 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Uta 110 is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, Flushing Av, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, seven of them schools, and 38 places to eat.

Safety record
25 hurt
48 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flushing Av
630 feet · 2 min on foot · J, M
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Flushing Av/Thornton St · B57
Within a walk
21 places
7 schools, 6 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Flushing Avenue & Throop Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flushing Av, 630 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av J, M
    630 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, 60 feet away, for the B57.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Throop Avenue.

  • 49 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
    780 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
    1,080 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 48 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 25 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 7 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 161 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,680th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 56 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
17 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1992 and 2021.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Flushing Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Throop Avenue

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Throop Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • 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 21 public places.

  • 7 schools
  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 college
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Uta 110 School
    530 feet
  2. Beginning With Children Charter School
    680 feet
  3. P.S. 373 - Brooklyn Transition Center School
    680 feet
Show all 9
  1. Boricua College - Brooklyn College
    750 feet
  2. Per Scholas Trade or language school
    1,100 feet
  3. P.S. 059 the Dawn Best School
    1,140 feet
  4. Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 2 School
    1,140 feet
  5. Beginning With Children Charter School 2 School
    1,150 feet
  6. Ohel Chaya School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bartlett Playground
    500 feet
  2. Charlie's Place Playground
    670 feet
  3. Sumner Playground
    1,150 feet

Health care

  1. Woodhull Medical & Mental Health Center Hospital
    1,250 feet
  2. EMS Station 57 Ambulance station
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. All Saints RC Church House of worship
    160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Metropolitan Post Office Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

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

Supermarkets

  1. Green Corner Fish & Farmers Market Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  3. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    750 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Throop Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.