Nostrand Avenue & Avenue J

Nostrand Avenue and Avenue J meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Yoseph Robinson Avenue by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Vanderveer Post Office is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2 and 5. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 5
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Nostrand Av/Avenue J · B44
Within a walk
14 places
9 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Avenue J Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College 2, 5
    0.4 miles
    2 5

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 5 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Flatbush Floogies” (1996) by Muriel Castanis at the Flatbush Av-Brooklyn College station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Avenue J, 120 feet away, for the B44.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Avenue J B44 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B44
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1760 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.6 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.

  • 9 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 August 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021
  • Turn calming, October 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
63 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Yoseph Robinson Avenue, a co-naming enacted on July 1, 2013 (Local Law 50 of 2013).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1955.

Since 2014 at least 16 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Yoseph Robinson Avenue.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 61 signs on these blocks
  • 19 different rules
  • 12 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and April 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Nostrand Avenue (west side).

North side of Avenue J

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue J

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY US POSTAL SERVICE
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 9AM-10PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 307061, 309115, 322331 and 322751.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. School of Electrical Education Trade or language school
    120 feet
  2. Jumpstart Early Intervention Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    670 feet
  3. Andries Hudde School
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. I. S. 381 School
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Avenue K House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Vanderveer Post Office
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    530 feet
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    670 feet
  2. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue J or Nostrand Avenue.

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