East 13th Street & Avenue S

East 13th Street and Avenue S meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 161 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Yeshiva Bais Chaya Esther is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about nine minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, six of them religious buildings.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
750 feet
Coney Island Av/Avenue S · B68
Within a walk
19 places
6 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U Q
    0.5 miles
    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 “Brooklyn Seeds” (2011) by Jason Middlebrook at the Ave U station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Avenue S, 750 feet away, for the B68.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Avenue S B68
    750 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 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, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2317 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1730 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 161 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,677th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 160 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest
Elevation
19 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue S

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue S

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of East 13th Street

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 13th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 5 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bambi Early Childhood Educational Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet
  2. Yeshivat Lev Torah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    950 feet
  3. Yeshiva Bais Chaya Esther School
    970 feet
Show all 10
  1. Becec School
    1,040 feet
  2. P.S. 153 Homecrest School
    1,070 feet
  3. Little Pickles Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,070 feet
  4. Ateret Torah Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,120 feet
  5. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,120 feet
  6. Bet Yaakov Ateret Torah School
    1,220 feet
  7. Bet Yakov Ateret Torah High School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kelly Park Playground
    310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. William E Kelly Monument Monument or memorial
    450 feet
  2. Beth-El Jewish Center of Flatbush Listed historic place
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Homecrest Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Okka Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

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 S or East 13th Street.

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