Kings Highway & East 36th Street

Kings Highway and East 36th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kings Highway United Methodist Church is 470 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kings Hwy/Fraser Sq, is 560 feet away for the B7, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and three places to eat.

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Kings Highway & East 36th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/Fraser Sq, 560 feet away, for the B7.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/Fraser Sq B7
    560 feet
    B7

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …

Live arrivals

Kings Highway carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    1,270 feet
  2. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.4 miles

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,100 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 1939.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and October 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 36th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 36th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Auditory Oral School of New York Preschool
    730 feet
  2. Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel School
    930 feet
  3. The Auditory/Oral School of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    940 feet
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  1. Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,070 feet
  2. BBB Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  3. Yeshiva Lev Torah - Site 2 School
    1,240 feet
  4. Yeshivat Lev Torah High School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fraser Square
    440 feet
  2. Sarsfield Playground
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kings Highway United Methodist Church House of worship
    470 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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