15th Avenue & 56th Street

The four-way crossing of 15th Avenue and 56th Street is in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Heritage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, 55 St, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 34 public places, 20 of them religious buildings. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1970, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
55 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
14 Av/56 St · B16
Within a walk
34 places
20 religious buildings, 7 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
15th Avenue & 56th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 55 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 55 St D
    0.3 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Southbound
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 62 St/New Utrecht Av D, N
    0.4 miles
    D N

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 14 Av/56 St, 860 feet away, for the B16.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 14 Av/56 St B16
    860 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6006 18th Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 5115 15th Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1,240 feet
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11219
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Borough Park
Elevation
52 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and June 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 15th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 15th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of 56th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 56th Street

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 8:30AM-10:30AM 2PM-6PM EXCEPT SATURDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 public places.

  • 20 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Talmud Torah Lelov School
    260 feet
  2. Little Munchkins Playgroup 56 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    330 feet
  3. Kiddie City Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    550 feet
Show all 13
  1. Agudath Chasidei Spinka Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    560 feet
  2. Yeshiva Imrei Yosef Spinka School
    620 feet
  3. B'Above Worldwide Institute Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    760 feet
  4. Congregation Yeshiva Bnei Torah School
    960 feet
  5. P.S. K231 School
    960 feet
  6. The Seeall Academy School
    960 feet
  7. Bubble U Playgroup Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,170 feet
  8. Kiddio Daycare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,220 feet
  9. Bais Rochel School of Boro Park School
    1,290 feet
  10. Gerer Yeshiva/Mesivta Bais Yisroel School
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. The Heritage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Minyan Mir House of worship
    1,260 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 15th Avenue or 56th Street.

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