Woodruff Avenue & St Pauls Place

Woodruff Avenue and St Pauls Place meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Umma Park is 550 feet away, and Duane Joseph Plaza is 1,100 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them parks, and four places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
750 feet · 3 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
700 feet
Woodruff Av/Ocean Av · B12
Within a walk
11 places
3 parks, 3 park features and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Woodruff Avenue & St Pauls Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 750 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av B, Q
    750 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Parkside Av Q
    1,130 feet
    Q

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Woodruff Av/Ocean Av, 700 feet away, for the B12.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Woodruff Av/Ocean Av B12
    700 feet
    B12

Next buses at this stop

  1. B12 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Caton Ave & St. Pauls Pl 21 docks in all
    740 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2193 Bedford Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 625 Rogers Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2023.

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
Elevation
58 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,300 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 1924 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and October 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of St Pauls Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of St Pauls Place

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Woodruff Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS

South side of Woodruff Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 3 park features
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 pedestrian plaza

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Prospect Park
    320 feet
  2. Umma Park
    550 feet
  3. Umma Park Playground
    650 feet
Show all 8
  1. Parade Ground Park
    650 feet
  2. Rustic Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature
    670 feet
  3. Parkside Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature
    700 feet
  4. Detective Dillon Stewart Playground
    910 feet
  5. Croquet Shelter in Prospect Park Park feature · listed historic place
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Duane Joseph Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Calvary Pentecostal Church House of worship
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along St Pauls Place or Woodruff Avenue.

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.