Parkside Avenue & Parade Place

Parkside Avenue and Parade Place meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush, Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park. Between 2021 and 2025, 30 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,455 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Croquet Shelter in Prospect Park is 390 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them park features. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Parkside Avenue.

Safety record
20 hurt
30 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
1,030 feet
Caton Av/E 16 St · B16
Within a walk
6 places
3 park features, 2 parks and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Parkside Avenue & Parade Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av B, Q
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.3 miles
    Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Caton Av/E 16 St, 1,030 feet away, for the B16.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Caton Av/E 16 St B16
    1,030 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Parkside Avenue.

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Parkside Ave & Parade Pl 22 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 378 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 30 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 6 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,455 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 565th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 646 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
39 and 40 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush; the corner is on the edge of the Prospect Park area
Elevation
59 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 128 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and April 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Parade Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Parade Place

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Parkside Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING 7AM-11PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 337939.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Classical Revival, and built in 1904.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 park features
  • 2 parks
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    60 feet
  2. Parade Ground Park
    70 feet
  3. Croquet Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature · landmark · listed historic place
    390 feet
Show all 6
  1. Detective Dillon Stewart Playground
    580 feet
  2. Parkside Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature
    620 feet
  3. Rustic Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Parade Place or Parkside 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.