Avenue M & East 17th Street

Avenue M and East 17th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Ivdu Elementary School is 450 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about a minute on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1931 and 1963, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
4 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
370 feet · 1 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Avenue M/E 18 St · B9
Within a walk
16 places
5 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue M & East 17th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 370 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. Ave M Q
    370 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Hare Apparent” (2011) by Rita MacDonald at the Ave M station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue M/E 18 St, 190 feet away, for the B9.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue M/E 18 St B9
    190 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 75 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 13th Street at Belt Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
24 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 119 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2014 and October 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue M

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue M

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

East side of East 17th Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of East 17th Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MODAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-8AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-8AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 305027, 307959 and 310693.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Beacon Healthcare School Trade or language school
    440 feet
  2. Ivdu Elementary School
    450 feet
  3. Yeshivat Shaarei Rachamim School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    490 feet
Show all 10
  1. New York Career Training School Trade or language school
    440 feet
  2. Edward R. Murrow High School
    710 feet
  3. Red Hat Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet
  4. Bereshith Pre-K
    860 feet
  5. Yeshiva Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky School
    880 feet
  6. Shaare Torah High School-Girls School
    940 feet
  7. Bais Yaakov Academy School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kolbert Playground
    460 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    520 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    590 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    790 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    440 feet
  2. Pomegranate Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 31 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue M or East 17th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.