Newkirk Avenue & Westminster Road

Newkirk Avenue and Westminster Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Newkirk Community Garden is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Plaza, is about four minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 27 places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1931, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Plaza
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
Coney Island Av/Newkirk Av · B8, B68
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Newkirk Avenue & Westminster Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Plaza, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    1,160 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave H Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Transit Skylight” (1988) by David Wilson at the Newkirk Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Newkirk Av, 420 feet away, for the B8 and B68.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Newkirk Av B8, B68 · Shelter
    420 feet
    B8 B68
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …
  2. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 37 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cortelyou Rd & Argyle Rd 25 docks in all
    0.5 miles

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. 3701 18th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.6 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2019.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40 and 45 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 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 1930 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 27 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and January 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Newkirk Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MAY-JULY SUNDAY 11AM-8PM

South side of Newkirk Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MAY-JULY SUNDAY 11AM-8PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Westminster Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Westminster Road

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 304198.

Landmarks and historic districts

Thirteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Queen Anne/Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1905 and 1906.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Nayema Universal Child Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    190 feet
  2. Peace Academy School
    330 feet
  3. P.S. 217 Colonel David Marcus School
    340 feet
Show all 6
  1. Inst for Career Training & Developme Trade or language school
    780 feet
  2. Snapdragon Place Pre-K
    780 feet
  3. Manhattan School of Computer Technol Trade or language school
    780 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Newkirk Community Garden
    990 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Rose of Lima RC Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,290 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    840 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 33 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Newkirk Avenue or Westminster Road.

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