56th Street & 17th Avenue

The three-way junction of 56th Street and 17th Avenue is in Borough Park, Brooklyn. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Gravesend Park is 830 feet away, and Mapleton Library is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, 18 Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the N. Within a five-minute walk are 29 public places, 17 of them religious buildings, and three places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
18 Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
880 feet
18 Av/57 St · B8
Within a walk
29 places
17 religious buildings, 6 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
56th Street & 17th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 18 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 18 Av N
    0.4 miles
    N

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. N …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. N …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Fluxus / Rythmus” (2018) by Emilio Perez at the 18 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 18 Av/57 St, 880 feet away, for the B8.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 18 Av/57 St B8
    880 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6006 18th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5115 15th Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2018.

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
52 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 43 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 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
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 56th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 56th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY SCHOOL FACULTY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 public places.

  • 17 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Toys and Joys Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    490 feet
  2. Yeshiva Tifereth Elimelech School
    570 feet
  3. Bubble U Playgroup Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet
Show all 9
  1. Yeshiva Birches Moshe School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,060 feet
  2. P.S. K231 School
    1,090 feet
  3. The Seeall Academy School
    1,090 feet
  4. Talmud Torah Ohr Moshe School
    1,260 feet
  5. Yeshivas Novominsk-Kol Yehuda School
    1,300 feet
  6. Congregation Yeshiva Bnei Torah School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gravesend Park
    830 feet
  2. Gravesend Park Playground
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Mapleton Library
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Minyan Mir House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Breadberry Supermarket
    1,050 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and five 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 17th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.