Foster Avenue & Westminster Road

Foster Avenue and Westminster Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 217 Colonel David Marcus School is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Plaza, is about five minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1924 and 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Plaza
1,290 feet · 5 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Foster Av/Coney Island Av · B8
Within a walk
15 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Foster Avenue & Westminster Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Plaza, 1,290 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    1,290 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Ave H Q
    0.4 miles
    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/Coney Island Av, 260 feet away, for the B8.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Foster Av/Coney Island Av B8 · Shelter
    260 feet
    B8
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Foster Avenue.

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3701 18th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.5 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2020.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2023

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
34 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1924 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 27 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Foster Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Foster Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Westminster Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Westminster Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 313756.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 schools
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 217 Colonel David Marcus School
    440 feet
  2. Nayema Universal Child Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  3. Peace Academy School
    860 feet
Show all 7
  1. Step Up Therapy Services Pt, Ot, SLP Preschool
    1,040 feet
  2. Inst for Career Training & Developme Trade or language school
    1,270 feet
  3. Manhattan School of Computer Technol Trade or language school
    1,270 feet
  4. Snapdragon Place Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Newkirk Community Garden
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Rose of Lima RC Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1075 Coney Island Avenue Older adult center
    790 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1081 Coney Island Avenue Older adult center
    860 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,010 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,130 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 25 places to eat and 29 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Foster Avenue or Westminster Road.

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