Rugby Road & Waldorf Court

Rugby Road and Waldorf Court meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Avenue H Station House stands 790 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave H, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and seven places to eat. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1910 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave H
940 feet · 4 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
Foster Av/Rugby Rd · B8
Within a walk
4 places
4 religious buildings, within five minutes

Map

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Rugby Road & Waldorf Court Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave H, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave H Q
    940 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brooklyn Bucolic” (2012) by Ed Kopel at the Ave H station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Foster Av/Rugby Rd, 900 feet away, for the B8.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Foster Av/Rugby Rd B8
    900 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Rugby Road.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1248 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 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 August 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
34 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 77 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rugby Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Waldorf Court

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Waldorf Court

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 97 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival. They were mostly built between 1906 and 1911.

  1. Avenue H Station House Designated landmark
    790 feet

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Rugby Road or Waldorf Court.

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