Kings Highway & East 38th Street

Kings Highway and East 38th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sarsfield Playground is 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kings Hwy/Ryder St, is 300 feet away for the B7, B82 and B82 SBS, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Kings Hwy/Ryder St · B7, B82, B82 SBS
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kings Highway & East 38th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/Ryder St, 300 feet away, for the B7, B82 and B82 SBS.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/Ryder St B7, B82, B82 SBS
    300 feet
    B7 B82 B82 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …
  2. B82 …
  3. B82 SBS …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    720 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to five 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 1930 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 38th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 38th Street

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

North side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. BBB Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    830 feet
  2. Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel School
    1,270 feet
  3. Auditory Oral School of New York Preschool
    1,280 feet
Show all 4
  1. Midwood Catholic Academy School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sarsfield Playground
    570 feet
  2. Fraser Square
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kings Highway United Methodist Church House of worship
    250 feet
  2. Flatlands Reformed Church House of worship
    1,200 feet
  3. St Thomas Aquinas Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    530 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    790 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and four 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 of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 38th Street or Kings Highway.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.