Avenue M & Elm Avenue

Avenue M and Elm Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Ivdu Elementary School is 830 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about a minute on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, seven of them schools, and 20 places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1929 and 1965, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
40 feet · 1 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Avenue M/E 15 St · B9
Within a walk
21 places
7 schools, 6 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue M & Elm Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 40 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. Ave M Q
    40 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 15 St, 90 feet away, for the B9.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue M/E 15 St B9
    90 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 69 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. 1780 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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 one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 1929 and 1965.

Since 2014 at least 109 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles 8am to 7pm Monday to Thursday, 4 hour passenger vehicles 8am to 7pm Friday on Avenue M (north side).

South side of Avenue M

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Elm Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Elm Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 310693.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. New York Career Training School Trade or language school
    200 feet
  2. Red Hat Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  3. Bais Yaakov Academy School
    810 feet
Show all 14
  1. Beacon Healthcare School Trade or language school
    820 feet
  2. Ivdu Elementary School
    830 feet
  3. Yeshivat Shaarei Rachamim School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    870 feet
  4. Edward R. Murrow High School
    1,090 feet
  5. Yeshiva Darche Eres - Kindergarten School
    1,220 feet
  6. Bereshith Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  7. Yeshiva Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky School
    1,260 feet
  8. Yeshiva Birchas Shmuel School
    1,270 feet
  9. Omni Childhood Center Preschool
    1,270 feet
  10. P.S. 199 Frederick Wachtel School
    1,280 feet
  11. Peer Hatorah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kolbert Playground
    850 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    140 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    210 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    410 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    160 feet
  2. Pomegranate Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 31 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue M or Elm Avenue.

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