Avenue N & East 13th Street

Avenue N and East 13th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bais Yaakov Academy is 760 feet away, and St Brendan Church is 1,190 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about five minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them schools, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
620 feet
Coney Island Av/Avenue N · B68
Within a walk
16 places
7 schools, 5 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue N & East 13th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Ave M Q
    0.3 miles
    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 Coney Island Av/Avenue N, 620 feet away, for the B68.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Avenue N B68
    620 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 2.3 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
    0.3 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44 and 48 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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.

Since 2014 at least 28 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2015 and November 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue N

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue N

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 13th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 13th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. Bet Yaakov Ohr Sarah School
    350 feet
  2. Yesodot Hatorah-Girls School
    360 feet
  3. Bais Yaakov Academy School
    760 feet
Show all 11
  1. P.S. 199 Frederick Wachtel School
    800 feet
  2. Imagine Academy School
    880 feet
  3. Peer Hatorah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,010 feet
  4. Shaare Torah School
    1,030 feet
  5. Red Hat Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
  6. Ucp of NYC - William O'Connor Midwo School
    1,120 feet
  7. Omni Childhood Center Preschool
    1,150 feet
  8. Adapt Community Network Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brendan Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    940 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and ten 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue N or East 13th Street.

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.