Martense Street & Fairview Place

Martense Street and Fairview Place meet at a three-way junction in East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Lenox Rd Baptist Church is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and 38 places to eat. About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1949, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
10 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
570 feet · 2 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Nostrand Av/Linden Blvd · B44
Within a walk
10 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Martense Street & Fairview Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 570 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av 2, 5
    570 feet
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …
Flatbush
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

Also within a walk

  1. Winthrop St 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5
  2. Beverly Rd 2, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Transitions” (2001) by Louis Delsarte at the Church Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Linden Blvd, 510 feet away, for the B44.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Linden Blvd B44
    510 feet
    B44

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Linden Blvd & Nostrand Ave 23 docks in all
    680 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 720 New York Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 395 Lenox Road Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
40
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Erasmus
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1949.

Since 2014 at least 89 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of Fairview Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Fairview Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Martense Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Candy Kid's Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  2. Little People's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    660 feet
  3. Pre-School Minds Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
Show all 6
  1. Kareful and Karefree Training School Trade or language school
    1,250 feet
  2. Rogers' Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet
  3. Lil Rockerz Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Lenox Rd Baptist Church House of worship
    1,000 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    920 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    1,320 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    620 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and 25 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Fairview Place or Martense Street.

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