Fulton Street & Ralph Avenue

Fulton Street and Ralph Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Chief Charles A. Joshua Plaza by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 43 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 225 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The sculpture “Freedom's Gate” is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, Ralph Av, is about a minute on foot, for the C. Within a five-minute walk are 30 public places and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
27 hurt
43 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ralph Av
70 feet · 1 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Ralph Av/Fulton St · B47
Within a walk
30 places
17 religious buildings, 4 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Fulton Street & Ralph Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ralph Av, 70 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av C
    70 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Rockaway Av C
    0.4 miles
    C
  2. Utica Av A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Fulton St, 50 feet away, for the B47.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Fulton St B47
    50 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ralph Ave & Fulton St 25 docks in all
    190 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1998 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    900 feet
  2. 170 Buffalo Avenue Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 43 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2022
  • Turn calming, August 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 225 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,584th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 85 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11233
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 3
City Council district
41
Police precinct
81
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)
Elevation
61 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Chief Charles A. Joshua Plaza, a co-naming enacted on December 4, 2001 (Local Law 60 of 2001).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 336 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Chief Charles A. Joshua Plaza.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 75 signs on these blocks
  • 19 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and June 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Fulton Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Fulton Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of MacDougal Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of MacDougal Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Fulton Street Traffic Triangle.

  1. Freedom's Gate Sculpture by Charles Searles, 1997
    60 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 4 playgrounds
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bishop Sexton Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    500 feet
  2. Starting Point - St Mark's Family School
    560 feet
  3. P.S. 040 George W. Carver School
    710 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brevoort Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet
  2. Shirley Chisholm Day Care Center #1 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brevoort Playground
    470 feet
  2. Carver Playground
    980 feet
  3. Weeksville Playground
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. South Pacific Playground
    1,230 feet

Health care

  1. Brooklyn Gardens Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. New Brooklyn Reformed Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Shirley A Chisholm Post Office
    420 feet
  2. Brevoort Community Center
    810 feet
  3. Older adult center at 280 Ralph Avenue Older adult center
    810 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    620 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,010 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and 17 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fulton Street, MacDougal Street or Ralph Avenue.

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