Avenue M & East 99th Street

Avenue M and East 99th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Temple Emanuel of Canarsie is 840 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue M/E 98 St, is 390 feet away for the B103 and BM2, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and four places to eat.

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Avenue M & East 99th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue M/E 98 St, 390 feet away, for the B103 and BM2.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue M/E 98 St B103, BM2
    390 feet
    B103 BM2

Next buses at this stop

  1. B103 …
  2. BM2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2000 Rockaway Parkway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.9 miles

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1960.

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
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

North side of Avenue M

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

South side of Avenue M

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

East side of East 99th Street

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

West side of East 99th Street

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

Places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 religious building

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Emanuel of Canarsie House of worship
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    670 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    710 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and four 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, seven 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.