Foster Avenue & Schenectady Avenue

Foster Avenue and Schenectady Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Farragut, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 222 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Farragut Post Office is 1,150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Foster Av, is 810 feet away for the B46, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest bus stop
810 feet
Utica Av/Foster Av · B46
Within a walk
14 places
10 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Foster Avenue & Schenectady Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Foster Av, 810 feet away, for the B46.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

By car

  1. 4210 Farragut Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.8 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 222 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,589th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 120 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
26 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,000 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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Amur maackia.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Foster Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Foster Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Schenectady Avenue

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Modern Organization and Human Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  2. Great Oaks Elementary School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Chiarantano Playground
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Hyde Park Congregation Church House of worship
    250 feet
  2. United Pentecostal Deliverance Temple House of worship
    1,020 feet
  3. St Therese Lisieux Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Farragut Post Office
    1,150 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • 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 Foster Avenue or Schenectady Avenue.

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