East 17th Street & Elm Avenue

East 17th Street and Elm Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Midwood, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Ivdu Elementary School is 380 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about two minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
440 feet · 2 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Avenue M/E 18 St · B9
Within a walk
16 places
5 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 440 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Ave M Q
    440 feet
    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 Avenue M/E 18 St, 230 feet away, for the B9.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue M/E 18 St B9
    230 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 75 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, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 119 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2014 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles 8am to 7pm Monday to Thursday, 4 hour passenger vehicles 8am to 7pm Friday on East 17th Street (west side).

East side of East 17th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Elm Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

South side of Elm Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 308606, 309649, 310200 and 326199.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Ivdu Elementary School
    380 feet
  2. Yeshivat Shaarei Rachamim School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    420 feet
  3. Beacon Healthcare School Trade or language school
    470 feet
Show all 10
  1. New York Career Training School Trade or language school
    510 feet
  2. Edward R. Murrow High School
    640 feet
  3. Bereshith Pre-K
    780 feet
  4. Yeshiva Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky School
    810 feet
  5. Red Hat Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    830 feet
  6. Shaare Torah High School-Girls School
    1,020 feet
  7. Bais Yaakov Academy School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kolbert Playground
    390 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    590 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    660 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    510 feet
  2. Pomegranate Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 29 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 nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 17th Street or Elm Avenue.

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