Foster Avenue & East 48th Street

Foster Avenue and East 48th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Farragut, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. United Pentecostal Deliverance Temple is 750 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Foster Av, is 540 feet away for the B46, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Utica Av/Foster Av · B46
Within a walk
16 places
12 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Foster Avenue & East 48th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Foster Av, 540 feet away, for the B46.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utica Av/Foster Av B46
    540 feet
    B46

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

  1. 4210 Farragut Road Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
25 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Modern Organization and Human Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
  2. Great Oaks Elementary School
    1,020 feet
  3. P.S. 208 Elsa Ebeling School
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Hyde Park Congregation Church House of worship
    500 feet
  2. United Pentecostal Deliverance Temple House of worship
    750 feet
  3. New Life Tabernacle House of worship
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bible Speaks Church of Christ House of worship
    1,210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Farragut Post Office
    880 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • 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 East 48th Street or Foster Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.