Ralph Avenue & East 88th Street

Ralph Avenue and East 88th Street meet at a three-way junction in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Grace Deliverance Tabernacle Church is 710 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/E 88 St, is 60 feet away for the B47, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

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Ralph Avenue & East 88th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/E 88 St, 60 feet away, for the B47.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/E 88 St B47
    60 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5802 Church Avenue Gas station
    1,040 feet
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four 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 October 2023.

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-Rugby
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1929 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2021 and October 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 88th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 88th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Flatbush SDA School
    650 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Linden Sitting Area Park
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Deliverance Tabernacle Church House of worship
    710 feet
  2. Remsen Church of God House of worship
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    900 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

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.