Ocean Avenue & Cortelyou Road

Ocean Avenue and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 55 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Kings Theatre is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, Cortelyou Rd, is about five minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cortelyou Rd
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Ocean Av/Cortelyou Rd · T464
Within a walk
15 places
10 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cortelyou Rd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Beverley Rd Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Garden Stops” (1994) by Patsy Norvell at the Cortelyou Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Cortelyou Rd, 60 feet away, for the T464.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Cortelyou Rd T464
    60 feet
    T464

Next buses at this stop

  1. T464 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Ocean Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 19 St & Cortelyou Rd 23 docks in all
    420 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1261 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 55 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,820th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 6 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 1921 and 1951.

Since 2014 at least 94 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 school
  • 1 theater or concert hall
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. B'Above Worldwide Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    270 feet
  2. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    590 feet
  3. St. Mark's Umc Head Start Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
Show all 4
  1. Starting Point Serv - St. Marks School
    850 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Kings Theatre Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    500 feet
  2. St Marks Church United Methodist House of worship
    730 feet
  3. Unity East Church Center House of worship
    830 feet
Show all 4
  1. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 21 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cortelyou Road or Ocean Avenue.

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