Rugby Road & Albemarle Road

Rugby Road and Albemarle Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Prospect Park South Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Parade Ground is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverley Rd, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverley Rd
1,280 feet · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Church Av/Rugby Rd · B35
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rugby Road & Albemarle Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverley Rd, 1,280 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beverley Rd Q
    1,280 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Church Av B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q
  2. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Garden Stops” (1994) by Patsy Norvell at the Beverley Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/Rugby Rd, 630 feet away, for the B35.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/Rugby Rd B35
    630 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Rugby Road.

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Rugby Rd & Albemarle Rd 19 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 546 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
42 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 1915 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Shumard's oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Albemarle Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Albemarle Road

  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Rugby Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Rugby Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Park South Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 267 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1901 and 1911.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Aim High Children's Services Preschool
    770 feet
  2. Honeydew Drop Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  3. Gifted & Talented Early Developers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 249 the Caton School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Parade Ground Park
    1,290 feet

Health care

  1. Caton Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Prospect Park South Historic District Listed historic place
    270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Beth Emeth Vohr Progressive Shaari Zedek Landmark
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Albemarle Road or Rugby Road.

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