Avenue N & East 86th Street

Avenue N and East 86th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Canarsie Park is 870 feet away. The nearest bus stop, E 80 St/Paerdegat 13 St, is 970 feet away for the B17, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places. About 1,400 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 86th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 80 St/Paerdegat 13 St, 970 feet away, for the B17.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 80 St/Paerdegat 13 St B17
    970 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, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 2000 Rockaway Parkway Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1.5 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

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
6 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue N

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

South side of Avenue N

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

East side of East 86th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 86th Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Gedolah Ohr Yisroel School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Canarsie Park
    870 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth Tikvah Congregation House of worship
    1,270 feet

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 and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.