Foster Avenue & Brooklyn Avenue

Foster Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Farragut, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 182 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Paerdegat Park is 1,100 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Av-Little Haiti, is about eight minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them playgrounds. About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1950, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
15 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Av-Little Haiti
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
New York Av/Foster Av · B44
Within a walk
6 places
2 playgrounds, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Foster Avenue & Brooklyn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Av-Little Haiti, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Av-Little Haiti 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is New York Av/Foster Av, 910 feet away, for the B44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. New York Av/Foster Av B44
    910 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Ave & Beverley Rd 21 docks in all
    0.5 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4210 Farragut Road Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 182 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,651st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 75 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
45
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Farragut
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 2,400 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 1940 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 20 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Brooklyn Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Foster Avenue

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Foster Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School
    310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Paerdegat Park
    1,100 feet
  2. Nostrand Playground
    1,120 feet
  3. Paerdegat Park Playground
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Methodist Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. The Meat Place Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Avenue or Foster Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.