Kings Highway & East 40th Street

Kings Highway and East 40th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Sunday School stands 170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kings Hwy/Flatbush Av, is 680 feet away for the B7 and B82 SBS, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Kings Hwy/Flatbush Av · B7, B82 SBS
Within a walk
6 places
4 religious buildings, 1 garden and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kings Highway & East 40th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/Flatbush Av, 680 feet away, for the B7 and B82 SBS.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/Flatbush Av B7, B82 SBS
    680 feet
    B7 B82 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …
  2. 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

  • 10 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
    880 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 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 June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2019
  • 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
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 40th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 40th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Kings Highway

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 338426.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built in 1848.

  1. Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Sunday School Designated landmark
    170 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Serenity Community Garden
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Listed historic place
    310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Flatlands Reformed Church Landmark
    240 feet
  2. Kings Highway United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    740 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    960 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

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 three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 40th Street or Kings Highway.

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