Avenue L & East 34th Street

Avenue L and East 34th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kings Highway United Methodist Church is 920 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue L/New York Av, is 190 feet away for the B9, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Avenue L/New York Av · B9
Within a walk
15 places
6 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue L & East 34th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue L/New York Av, 190 feet away, for the B9.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue L/New York Av B9
    190 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2022
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2024

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
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and April 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 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of East 34th Street

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

West side of East 34th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    530 feet
  2. Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel School
    570 feet
  3. Auditory Oral School of New York Preschool
    860 feet
Show all 7
  1. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  2. The Auditory/Oral School of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet
  3. Yad Yisroel School
    1,110 feet
  4. Step-Special Torah Educ Prog School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fraser Square
    960 feet
  2. Andries Playground
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kings Highway United Methodist Church House of worship
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

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 and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue L or East 34th 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.