Avenue N & East 19th Street

Avenue N and East 19th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Eddie Kay Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Joseph S Gruss Yeshiva HS is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about six minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue N · B49, BM3
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue N & East 19th 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 six 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 Ocean Av/Avenue N, 350 feet away, for the B49 and BM3.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue N B49, BM3
    350 feet
    B49 BM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral

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. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

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
23 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Eddie Kay 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 2,300 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 1928 and 1953.

Since 2014 at least 24 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Eddie Kay Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 45 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue N

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue N

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

East side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

West side of East 19th Street

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Joseph S Gruss Yeshiva HS School
    130 feet
  2. Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz School
    130 feet
  3. Beacon Healthcare School Trade or language school
    1,000 feet
Show all 7
  1. Promise World Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet
  2. Imaginarium Child Pre-K
    1,130 feet
  3. Shaare Torah High School-Girls School
    1,290 feet
  4. Ivdu Elementary School
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Green Forest Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue N or East 19th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.