East 21st Street & Avenue L

East 21st Street and Avenue L meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. E Midwood Jewish Center is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about nine minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 24 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1926 and 1959, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
5 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
Avenue L/Ocean Av · B9
Within a walk
24 places
12 religious buildings, 6 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 21st Street & Avenue L Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Ave M Q
    0.4 miles
    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 L/Ocean Av, 190 feet away, for the B9.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue L/Ocean Av B9 · Shelter
    190 feet
    B9
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 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, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1926 and 1959.

Since 2014 at least 11 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and November 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue L

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Avenue L

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East 21st Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 21st Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 public places.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Fun Studios Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    520 feet
  2. Urban Dove Team Charter School
    600 feet
  3. Urban Dove Team Charter School V School
    600 feet
Show all 8
  1. Merkaz the Center School
    680 feet
  2. Shaare Torah High School-Girls School
    1,100 feet
  3. Bereshith Pre-K
    1,110 feet
  4. Yeshiva Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky School
    1,180 feet
  5. P.S. 193 Gil Hodges School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kolbert Playground
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. East Midwood Jewish Center Listed historic place
    640 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Midwood House of worship
    410 feet
  2. E Midwood Jewish Center House of worship
    530 feet
  3. Bais Avrohom Dkrula Spinka House of worship
    1,080 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1694 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    480 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1625 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    680 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and two 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 corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue L or East 21st Street.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.