East 13th Street & Avenue Z

East 13th Street and Avenue Z meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named George Atsaves 9/11 Memorial Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sheepshead Bay Library is 470 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about two minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
610 feet · 2 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Avenue Z/E 13 St · B36
Within a walk
4 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 library and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sheepshead Bay, 610 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    610 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Postcards from Sheepshead Bay” (1998) by Deborah Goletz at the Sheepshead Bay station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue Z/E 13 St, 110 feet away, for the B36.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue Z/E 13 St B36
    110 feet
    B36

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 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, 1,290 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 3010 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017
  • Turn calming, August 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

This corner is also named George Atsaves 9/11 Memorial Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2024 (Local Law 41 of 2024).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 1955 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on George Atsaves 9/11 Memorial Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue Z

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Avenue Z

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of East 13th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

West side of East 13th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 321731.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Lighthouse Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    770 feet
  2. Bright Start PT & Pta Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Homecrest Playground
    590 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sheepshead Bay Library
    470 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    480 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    510 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    380 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue Z or East 13th Street.

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