Foster Avenue & East 49th Street

Foster Avenue and East 49th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Farragut, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Alfred J. Vigliante Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Hyde Park Congregation Church is 760 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Foster Av, is 280 feet away for the B46, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Utica Av/Foster Av · B46
Within a walk
16 places
11 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Foster Avenue & East 49th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Foster Av, 280 feet away, for the B46.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Beverley Rd & E 49 St 22 docks in all
    0.5 miles

By car

  1. 1527 Utica Avenue Gas station
    0.4 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
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 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
22 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Alfred J. Vigliante Way, a co-naming enacted on August 3, 2016 (Local Law 92 of 2016).

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Alfred J. Vigliante Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and June 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of East 49th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of Foster Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 319686.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 208 Elsa Ebeling School
    1,140 feet
  2. B'Above E49th Street Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  3. Modern Organization and Human Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
Show all 4
  1. Great Oaks Elementary School
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. United Pentecostal Deliverance Temple House of worship
    750 feet
  2. Hyde Park Congregation Church House of worship
    760 feet
  3. Bible Speaks Church of Christ House of worship
    950 feet
Show all 4
  1. New Life Tabernacle House of worship
    980 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Farragut Post Office
    740 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,040 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 49th Street or Foster Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.