Remsen Avenue & East 54th Street

Remsen Avenue and East 54th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 71 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 4,909 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Triumphant Full Gospel Assembly Church is 870 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Remsen Av/Winthrop St, is 120 feet away for the B17, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
71 hurt
71 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Remsen Av/Winthrop St · B17
Within a walk
16 places
12 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Remsen Avenue & East 54th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Remsen Av/Winthrop St, 120 feet away, for the B17.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Remsen Av/Winthrop St B17
    120 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 93 St & Winthrop St 14 docks in all
    840 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 71 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 4,909 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 35th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 2,574 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
41
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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.

Since 2014 at least 31 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 54 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 54th Street

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

West side of East 54th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Remsen Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Remsen Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

North side of Winthrop Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Winthrop Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    810 feet
  2. The Middle School of Media, Law and Fine Arts School
    880 feet
  3. Uncommon Kings Charter School NYC School
    880 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 268 Emma Lazarus School
    910 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Triumphant Full Gospel Assembly Church House of worship
    870 feet
  2. New Dimension SDA Church House of worship
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

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 and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 54th Street, Remsen Avenue or Winthrop Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.