Ralph Avenue & East 87th Street

Ralph Avenue and East 87th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Remsen Village, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Grace Deliverance Tabernacle Church is 740 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/Snyder Av, is 270 feet away for the B47, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them schools, and four places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Ralph Av/Snyder Av · B47
Within a walk
9 places
5 schools and 4 religious buildings, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ralph Avenue & East 87th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Snyder Av, 270 feet away, for the B47.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Snyder Av B47
    270 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Linden Blvd & E 91 St 12 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5802 Church Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
42
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Remsen Village
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and November 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue A

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Avenue A

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of East 87th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 87th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 4 religious buildings

Schools and child care

  1. Flatbush SDA School
    890 feet
  2. I.S. 285 Meyer Levin School
    930 feet
  3. Cultural Academy for the Arts and Sciences School
    1,080 feet
Show all 5
  1. It Takes a Village Academy School
    1,080 feet
  2. Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Deliverance Tabernacle Church House of worship
    740 feet
  2. Remsen Church of God House of worship
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue A, East 87th Street or Ralph Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.