53rd Street & 15th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 53rd Street and 15th Avenue is in Borough Park, Brooklyn, and is also named Thomas Joseph Sgroi Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. The Heritage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center is 900 feet away, and Talmud Torah Lelov is 1,040 feet away. The nearest subway, 55 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are 39 public places, 28 of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
55 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
14 Av/53 St · B16
Within a walk
39 places
28 religious buildings, 6 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
53rd Street & 15th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 55 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 55 St D
    0.4 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 14 Av/53 St, 860 feet away, for the B16.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 14 Av/53 St B16
    860 feet
    B16

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 1.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2018
  • Turn calming, July 2024

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
54 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Thomas Joseph Sgroi Way, a co-naming enacted on October 10, 2008 (Local Law 48 of 2008).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Thomas Joseph Sgroi Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and March 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 15th Avenue

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

West side of 15th Avenue

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

North side of 53rd Street

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

South side of 53rd Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Bais Rochel School of Boro Park School
    770 feet
  2. Kiddie City Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    810 feet
  3. United Talmudical Academy of Boro Park Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    820 feet
Show all 10
  1. Nurtury 58 Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    960 feet
  2. Talmud Torah Lelov School
    1,040 feet
  3. Little Munchkins Playgroup 56 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,110 feet
  4. Yeshiva Ketana Satmar BP School
    1,140 feet
  5. Gerer Yeshiva/Mesivta Bais Yisroel School
    1,150 feet
  6. Torah Vyirah of Boro Park School
    1,180 feet
  7. Congregation Yeshiva Bnei Torah School
    1,220 feet

Health care

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

Houses of worship

  1. Sons Judah Congregation House of worship
    920 feet
  2. Shomrei Emunah Congregation House of worship
    1,000 feet
  3. Congregation Minyan Mir House of worship
    1,090 feet
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  1. Khal Chasidim Congregation House of worship
    1,140 feet
  2. Young Israel Beth El Borough Park Listed historic place
    1,230 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 53rd Street.

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