Remsen Avenue & Stillwells Place

Remsen Avenue and Stillwells Place meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Our Future School is 940 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Remsen Av/Avenue K, is 260 feet away for the B17, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and four places to eat.

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Remsen Avenue & Stillwells Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Remsen Av/Avenue K, 260 feet away, for the B17.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Remsen Av/Avenue K B17
    260 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8401 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1 mile

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1960.

Trees

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Solade Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet
  2. Children's Ark Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    760 feet
  3. Congregation Machna Shalva - 2 School
    940 feet
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  1. Our Future School
    940 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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