Westminster Road & Slocum Place

Westminster Road and Slocum Place meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Engine 281/Ladder 147 firehouse is 810 feet away. The nearest subway, Cortelyou Rd, is about six minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 30 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cortelyou Rd
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Coney Island Av/Slocum Pl · B68
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 fire station and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Westminster Road & Slocum Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Cortelyou 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. Beverley Rd Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Slocum Pl, 670 feet away, for the B68.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 842 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
41 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Slocum Place

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

South side of Slocum Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Westminster Road

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 167 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Queen Anne, and mostly built between 1898 and 1902.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    920 feet
  2. Honeydew Cortelyou Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lt. Federico Narvaez Tot Lot Playground
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cortelyou Library
    1,130 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 281/Ladder 147 Fire station
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 places to eat and 12 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 Slocum Place 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.