Avenue L & East 17th Street

Avenue L and East 17th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Sarita Rein Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Edward R. Murrow High School is 470 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about five minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
890 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue L · B9, B49, BM3
Within a walk
21 places
10 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue L & East 17th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 1,250 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Ave M Q
    1,250 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave J Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Hare Apparent” (2011) by Rita MacDonald at the Ave M station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Avenue L, 890 feet away, for the B9, B49 and BM3.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue L B9, B49, BM3
    890 feet
    B9 B49 BM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …
  2. B49 …
  3. BM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 13th Street at Belt Parkway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 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.

  • 5 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sarita Rein Way, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).

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, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 110 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sarita Rein Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue L

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-7AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue L

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-7AM

East side of East 17th Street

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

West side of East 17th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-7AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 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 21 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Edward R. Murrow High School
    470 feet
  2. Yeshiva Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky School
    560 feet
  3. Bereshith Pre-K
    650 feet
Show all 9
  1. Yeshivat Shaarei Rachamim School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    800 feet
  2. Yeshiva Birchas Shmuel School
    810 feet
  3. Ivdu Elementary School
    890 feet
  4. New York Career Training School Trade or language school
    960 feet
  5. Beacon Healthcare School Trade or language school
    1,000 feet
  6. Fun Studios Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kolbert Playground
    50 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bais Avrohom Dkrula Spinka House of worship
    520 feet
  2. Young Israel of Midwood House of worship
    790 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1694 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,270 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    960 feet
  2. Pomegranate Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 17 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 Avenue L or East 17th 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.