Avenue L & East 29th Street

Avenue L and East 29th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Step-Special Torah Educ Prog is 440 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue L/E 28 St, is 180 feet away for the B9, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Avenue L/E 28 St · B9
Within a walk
18 places
11 religious buildings, 5 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue L & East 29th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue L/E 28 St, 180 feet away, for the B9.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue L/E 28 St B9
    180 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2791 Nostrand Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1953.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2022 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue L

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue L

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of East 29th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of East 29th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 302493.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Step-Special Torah Educ Prog School
    440 feet
  2. Yad Yisroel School
    450 feet
  3. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
Show all 6
  1. Andries Hudde School
    820 feet
  2. I. S. 381 School
    820 feet
  3. P.S. 193 Gil Hodges School
    950 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Andries Playground
    180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Avenue K House of worship
    870 feet
  2. Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue L or East 29th 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.