Avenue L & East 101st Street

Avenue L and East 101st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Wilson Playground is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue M/E 102 St, is 1,020 feet away for the B103 and BM2, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and one place to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1955, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
7 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,020 feet
Avenue M/E 102 St · B103, BM2
Within a walk
1 place
1 playground, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue L & East 101st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue M/E 102 St, 1,020 feet away, for the B103 and BM2.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue M/E 102 St B103, BM2
    1,020 feet
    B103 BM2

Next buses at this stop

  1. B103 …
  2. BM2 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 2000 Rockaway Parkway Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.9 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.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue L

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Avenue L

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of East 101st Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 101st Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Wilson Playground
    830 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue L or East 101st Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.