Avenue L & East 53rd Street
Avenue L and East 53rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Firefighter Michael Roberts Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 203 Floyd Bennett School is 1,040 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Avenue L, is 910 feet away for the B46, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and two places to eat.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Avenue L, 910 feet away, for the B46.
- 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Utica Av/Avenue L B46910 feetB46
Next buses at this stop
- B46 …
Cycling
- 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.
- 1982 Utica Avenue Gas station0.5 miles
- 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers0.9 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.
- 14 people injured
- 0 people killed
- 1 of those hurt, on a bike
The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.
What the city has done here
- Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2025
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11234
- Community board
- Brooklyn Community Board 18
- City Council district
- 46
- Police precinct
- 63
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Flatlands
- Elevation
- 14 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Firefighter Michael Roberts Corner, a co-naming enacted on January 7, 2003 (Local Law 6 of 2003).
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, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1940.
Trees
NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter Michael Roberts Corner.
Schools and places within a walk
How places are listedTwo public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 religious building
- 1 school
Schools and child care
- P.S. 203 Floyd Bennett School1,040 feet
Supermarkets
- Key Food Supermarket0.4 miles
Pharmacies
- Walgreens Pharmacy0.3 miles
- Duane Reade Pharmacy0.4 miles
Other stores
- Family Dollar Store960 feet
Shopping centers
- Georgetowne Shopping Center Shopping center0.4 miles
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and three food stores.
Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.
Nearby corners
The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:
- Avenue L & East 52nd Street 270 feet
- Avenue L & East 54th Street 270 feet
- Avenue L & East 51st Street 530 feet
- Avenue L & East 55th Street 530 feet
- Avenue L & East 56th Street 800 feet
- Avenue M & East 53rd Street 810 feet
- Avenue L & Utica Avenue 810 feet
- Avenue K & East 53rd Street 830 feet
See every intersection along Avenue L or East 53rd Street.