Ralph Avenue & Bergen Avenue

Ralph Avenue and Bergen Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 3,883 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Paerdegat Basin Park is 980 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/Bergen Av, is 50 feet away for the B47, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and six places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Ralph Av/Bergen Av · B47
Within a walk
2 places
1 nature area and 1 religious building, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ralph Avenue & Bergen Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Bergen Av, 50 feet away, for the B47.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Bergen Av B47
    50 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5828 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 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.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2022
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,883 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 215th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,142 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1975 and 2003.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 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 2016 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 7pm on Ralph Avenue (west side).

East side of Bergen Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 7 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Bergen Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MIDNIGHT-3AM ALL DAYS
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 340491.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nature area
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Paerdegat Basin Park Nature area
    980 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    430 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    60 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,120 feet
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Georgetowne Shopping Center Shopping center
    1,300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bergen Avenue or Ralph Avenue.

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