Kings Highway & Utica Avenue

Kings Highway and Utica Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 67 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 259 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Sunners Playground is 630 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Kings HWY, is 30 feet away for the B46, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Utica Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
52 hurt
67 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
Utica Av/Kings HWY · B46
Within a walk
3 places
2 religious buildings and 1 playground, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kings Highway & Utica Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Kings HWY, 30 feet away, for the B46.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utica Av/Kings HWY B46 · Shelter
    30 feet
    B46
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Utica Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on weekdays.

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1527 Utica Avenue Gas station
    380 feet
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 67 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 259 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 154th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 2,734 more were issued.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on Kings Highway2591,045
Westbound on Kings Highway–1,689
Total2592,734

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

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 four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and November 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Kings Highway

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM

West side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

East side of Utica Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Utica Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sunners Playground
    630 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    390 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,120 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and seven 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kings Highway or Utica Avenue.

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