44th Street & 17th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 44th Street and 17th Avenue is in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yeshiva Beth Hillel of Krasna is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, 18 Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1955, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
18 Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,170 feet
18 Av/45 St · B8
Within a walk
20 places
9 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
44th Street & 17th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 18 Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 18 Av F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Ditmas Av F
    0.3 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “We are each others” (2018) by Julien Gardair at the 18 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 18 Av/45 St, 1,170 feet away, for the B8.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 18 Av/45 St B8
    1,170 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ditmas Ave & McDonald Ave 23 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1 Cortelyou Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11204
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Borough Park
Elevation
50 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2018 and October 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 17th Avenue

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

West side of 17th Avenue

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

North side of 44th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 44th Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 playground
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Bais Shifra School
    680 feet
  2. Manhattan School of Computer Technol Trade or language school
    680 feet
  3. Kinderland Da Care Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    770 feet
Show all 10
  1. Kinderland Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    770 feet
  2. District 20 Pre-K Center at 1668 46th Street Pre-K center
    800 feet
  3. Yeshiva Beth Hillel of Krasna School
    850 feet
  4. Yeshiva Beth Joseph Zvi Dushinsky School
    850 feet
  5. Jewish Continuity Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  6. Bais Yaakov of 18th Ave School
    1,120 feet
  7. Talmud Torah Lelov School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. DiGilio Playground
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Holy Spirit Church House of worship
    470 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Landau's Supermarket Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  2. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and eight 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 nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 17th Avenue or 44th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.