Avenue L & New York Avenue

Avenue L and New York Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Andries Playground is 930 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue L/New York Av, is 90 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 three places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
90 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 & New York Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue L/New York Av, 90 feet away, for the B9.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue L/New York Av B9
    90 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, 2.4 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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

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
21 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 1925 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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 November 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 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

East side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of New York Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 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.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    690 feet
  2. Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    790 feet
  3. Mesivta Tiferes Yisroel School
    830 feet
Show all 7
  1. Yad Yisroel School
    850 feet
  2. Step-Special Torah Educ Prog School
    890 feet
  3. The Auditory/Oral School of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    940 feet
  4. Auditory Oral School of New York Preschool
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Andries Playground
    930 feet
  2. Fraser Square
    1,220 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kings Highway United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue L or New York Avenue.

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.