Avenue N & East 101st Street

Avenue N and East 101st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 272 Curtis Estabrook is 920 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Seaview Av/E 102 St, is 1,020 feet away for the B17, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1955 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Avenue N & East 101st Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Seaview Av/E 102 St, 1,020 feet away, for the B17.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seaview Av/E 102 St B17
    1,020 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

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
    0.3 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1.2 miles

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

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
8 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1955 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

North side of Avenue N

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

South side of Avenue N

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

East side of East 101st Street

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

West side of East 101st Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 272 Curtis Estabrook School
    920 feet
  2. Little Princeton Nursery and Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayview Playground
    1,130 feet
  2. Canarsie Park
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners 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.