Avenue L & East 32nd Street

Avenue L and East 32nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Step-Special Torah Educ Prog is 630 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue L/New York Av, is 200 feet away for the B9, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Map

Layers
Avenue L & East 32nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue L/New York Av, 200 feet away, for the B9.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue L/New York Av B9
    200 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, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1924 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.4 miles

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
23 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1953.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and May 2026, 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 THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of East 32nd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 32nd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    430 feet
  2. Yad Yisroel School
    590 feet
  3. Step-Special Torah Educ Prog School
    630 feet
Show all 6
  1. Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,050 feet
  2. Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel School
    1,090 feet
  3. The Auditory/Oral School of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Andries Playground
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and four 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:

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.