East 17th Street & Avenue S

East 17th Street and Avenue S meet at a four-way crossing in Madison, Brooklyn. The corner is also named M.G. Halprin Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 255 Barbara Reing School is 390 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them religious buildings.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
910 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue S · B49, BM3
Within a walk
10 places
5 religious buildings, 3 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 17th Street & Avenue S Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U Q
    0.4 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 Ocean Av/Avenue S, 910 feet away, for the B49 and BM3.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue S B49, BM3
    910 feet
    B49 BM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 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, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2317 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1730 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 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, February 2017

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)
Madison
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

This corner is also named M.G. Halprin Square, a co-naming enacted on January 6, 1984 (Local Law 2 of 1984).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on M.G. Halprin Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue S

  • Doctor plates only 2 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Avenue S

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

East side of East 17th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 17th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 255 Barbara Reing School
    390 feet
  2. J.H.S. 234 Arthur W. Cunningham School
    420 feet
  3. Nefesh Academy School
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kelly Park Playground
    290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. William E Kelly Monument Monument or memorial
    640 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Star Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue S or East 17th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.