Parade Place & Crooke Avenue

Parade Place and Crooke Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Detective Dillon Stewart Playground is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them parks, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
940 feet · 4 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Caton Av/E 16 St · B16
Within a walk
13 places
3 parks, 3 park features and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Parade Place & Crooke Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av B, Q
    940 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. Parkside Av Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Caton Av/E 16 St, 440 feet away, for the B16.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Caton Av/E 16 St B16
    440 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Parade Pl & Crooke Ave 30 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 378 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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; the corner is on the edge of the Prospect Park area
Elevation
56 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and January 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Crooke Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Crooke Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Parade Place

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 3 park features
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Practical Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    790 feet
  2. P.S. 249 the Caton School
    1,160 feet
  3. Gifted & Talented Early Developers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Detective Dillon Stewart Playground
    40 feet
  2. Parade Ground Park
    40 feet
  3. Prospect Park
    650 feet
Show all 9
  1. Croquet Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature · listed historic place
    980 feet
  2. Parkside Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,210 feet
  3. Rustic Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature
    1,230 feet
  4. Umma Park Playground
    1,260 feet
  5. Umma Park
    1,260 feet
  6. Q Gardens Community Farm Garden
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and six 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Crooke Avenue or Parade Place.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.