Stratford Road & Hinckley Place

Stratford Road and Hinckley Place meet at a three-way junction 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. P.S. 889 is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverley Rd, is about six minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverley Rd
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Coney Island Av/Turner Pl · B68
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Stratford Road & Hinckley Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverley Rd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Beverley Rd Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 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 Coney Island Av/Turner Pl, 670 feet away, for the B68.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Turner Pl B68
    670 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Stratford Rd & Beverley Rd 19 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 396 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 123 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 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 October 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
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

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Norway maple and the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and February 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hinckley Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Hinckley Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Stratford Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Park South Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 207 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1902 and 1909.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. M.S. 890 School
    590 feet
  2. P.S. 889 School
    590 feet
  3. Honeydew Drop Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Hinckley Place or Stratford Road.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.