Ocean Avenue & Dorchester Road

Ocean Avenue and Dorchester Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Ditmas Park Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Cortelyou Rd, is about eight minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cortelyou Rd
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
720 feet
Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd · B41
Within a walk
12 places
7 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Dorchester Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cortelyou Rd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.4 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
    0.5 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 Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd, 720 feet away, for the B41.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flatbush Av/Dorchester Rd B41
    720 feet
    B41

Next buses at this stop

  1. B41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Ocean Avenue.

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 19 St & Cortelyou Rd 23 docks in all
    1,020 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 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
    0.6 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017

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 (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 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 1959.

Since 2014 at least 88 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dorchester Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Dorchester Road

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

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 11 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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Ditmas Park Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 57 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1906 and 1910.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    780 feet
  2. B'Above Worldwide Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  3. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    1,180 feet

Health care

  1. Ditmas Park Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church Landmark
    590 feet
  2. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    770 feet
  3. Pilgrim Wesleyan Church House of worship
    900 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 961 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dorchester Road or Ocean Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.