Foster Avenue & East 25th Street

Foster Avenue and East 25th Street meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. New Generation Elementary School is 730 feet away, and Central Brooklyn Ascend Charter School is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Av-Little Haiti, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Av-Little Haiti
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Foster Av/Flatbush Av · B8, B49
Within a walk
18 places
9 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Foster Avenue & East 25th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Av-Little Haiti, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Foster Av/Flatbush Av, 40 feet away, for the B8 and B49.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Foster Av/Flatbush Av B8, B49
    40 feet
    B8 B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …
  2. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bedford Ave & Beverley Rd 24 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 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1261 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    630 feet
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
45
Police precinct
67 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1934.

Since 2014 at least 200 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 25th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of East 25th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM

North side of Foster Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. The Reggio Emilia Montessori Center Pre-K
    240 feet
  2. New Generation Elementary School
    730 feet
  3. New Generation Learning Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet
Show all 7
  1. Brooklyn Kids Preparatory School
    1,000 feet
  2. Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
  3. Central Brooklyn Ascend Charter School
    1,240 feet
  4. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kings Church of Christ House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Flatbush YMCA Recreation center
    990 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1401 Flatbush Avenue Older adult center
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. The Meat Place Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and 13 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 East 25th Street or Foster Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.