Avenue N & East 15th Street

Avenue N and East 15th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Benjamin W. Schaeffer Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bet Yaakov Ohr Sarah is 870 feet away, and Imagine Academy is 880 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about four minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
990 feet
Avenue M/E 15 St · B9
Within a walk
10 places
6 schools, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue N & East 15th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Ave M Q
    1,000 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, 990 feet away, for the B9.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue M/E 15 St B9 · Shelter
    990 feet
    B9
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 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, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 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
26 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Benjamin W. Schaeffer Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 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 1938.

Since 2014 at least 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Benjamin W. Schaeffer Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue N

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue N

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 15th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 15th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 314108 and 320887.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Red Hat Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    590 feet
  2. Bet Yaakov Ohr Sarah School
    870 feet
  3. Yesodot Hatorah-Girls School
    880 feet
Show all 8
  1. Imagine Academy School
    880 feet
  2. New York Career Training School Trade or language school
    1,170 feet
  3. Joseph S Gruss Yeshiva HS School
    1,200 feet
  4. Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz School
    1,200 feet
  5. Bais Yaakov Academy School
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    940 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    960 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    1,130 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 14 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue N or East 15th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.