Avenue N & East 16th Street

Avenue N and East 16th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Joseph S Gruss Yeshiva HS is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them schools, and ten places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Avenue N & East 16th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 930 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave M Q
    930 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Kings Hwy B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B 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, 880 feet away, for the B9.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 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
    0.4 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
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2024.

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
22 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 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 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 16th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 16th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 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
    850 feet
  2. Joseph S Gruss Yeshiva HS School
    940 feet
  3. Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz School
    940 feet
Show all 7
  1. New York Career Training School Trade or language school
    1,050 feet
  2. Bet Yaakov Ohr Sarah School
    1,130 feet
  3. Yesodot Hatorah-Girls School
    1,140 feet
  4. Imagine Academy School
    1,140 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,130 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  2. Okka Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Green Forest Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 17 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 16th 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.