Avenue M & East 32nd Street

Avenue M and East 32nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mount Sinai Brooklyn is 530 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Nostrand Av/Avenue M, is 590 feet away for the B44 and BM4, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

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Avenue M & East 32nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Avenue M, 590 feet away, for the B44 and BM4.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Avenue M B44, BM4
    590 feet
    B44 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B44 …
  2. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2791 Nostrand Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1,070 feet

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 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
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 700 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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue M

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Avenue M

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East 32nd Street

  • Doctor plates only 5 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of East 32nd Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. The Auditory/Oral School of NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    310 feet
  2. Auditory Oral School of New York Preschool
    540 feet
  3. Yeshiva Lev Torah - Site 2 School
    900 feet
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  1. Yeshivat Lev Torah High School
    900 feet
  2. The Joan Snow Pre-K Center at 1340 East 29th Street Pre-K center
    1,270 feet
  3. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fraser Square
    600 feet

Health care

  1. Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital
    530 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Help of Christians RC Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
  2. Congregation Adath Yeshurun of Flatbush House of worship
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change 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:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.