Westminster Road & Albemarle Road

Westminster 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. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Temple Beth Emeth Vohr Progressive Shaari Zedek is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverley Rd, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverley Rd
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Church Av/Westminster Rd · B35
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Westminster Road & Albemarle Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  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. Church Av B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B 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/Westminster Rd, 440 feet away, for the B35.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/Westminster Rd B35
    440 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

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

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1961.

Since 2014 at least 5 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and January 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Albemarle Road

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Albemarle Road

  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Westminster Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Westminster Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Prospect Park South Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 253 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and built between 1880 and 1965.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Honeydew Drop Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    560 feet
  2. Aim High Children's Services Preschool
    1,240 feet
  3. M.S. 890 School
    1,250 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 889 School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Parade Ground Park
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Beth Emeth Vohr Progressive Shaari Zedek House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    1,050 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and ten 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 Albemarle Road or Westminster 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.