Foster Avenue & East 19th Street

Foster Avenue and East 19th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nativity Church is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Plaza, is about five minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Plaza
1,230 feet · 5 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Foster Av/E 18 St · B8
Within a walk
4 places
3 religious buildings and 1 day care or pre-K site, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Foster Avenue & East 19th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Plaza, 1,230 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    1,230 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Transit Skylight” (1988) by David Wilson at the Newkirk Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Foster Av/E 18 St, 190 feet away, for the B8.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Foster Av/E 18 St B8
    190 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Foster Avenue.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 19 St & Cortelyou Rd 23 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, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1261 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,300 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 1931 and 1955.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Foster Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Foster Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 183 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1907 and 1915.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Foster Avenue Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    330 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Nativity Church House of worship
    430 feet
  2. Our Lady of Refuge Church House of worship
    460 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,030 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and ten food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 19th Street or Foster Avenue.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.