East 53rd Street & Remsen Avenue

East 53rd Street and Remsen Avenue meet at a three-way junction in East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 4,318 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Middle School of Media, Law and Fine Arts is 620 feet away. The nearest subway, Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, is about ten minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sutter Av-Rutland Rd
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Remsen Av/Rutland Rd · B17
Within a walk
18 places
10 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 53rd Street & Remsen Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sutter Av-Rutland Rd, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.5 miles
    3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. 3 …
New Lots
1 line
  1. 3 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Ailanthus” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Sutter Av-Rutland Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Remsen Av/Rutland Rd, 250 feet away, for the B17.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Remsen Av/Rutland Rd B17
    250 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 52 St & Winthrop St 12 docks in all
    950 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 441 Remsen Avenue Gas station
    1,230 feet
  2. 581 Clarkson Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 4,318 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 193rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 2,190 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
41
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,800 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 1950.

Since 2014 at least 31 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 53rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 53rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Remsen Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. The Middle School of Media, Law and Fine Arts School
    620 feet
  2. Uncommon Kings Charter School NYC School
    620 feet
  3. Ms. Taylor's House Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    960 feet
Show all 8
  1. P.S. 268 Emma Lazarus School
    1,200 feet
  2. United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,210 feet
  3. Medgar Evers Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet
  4. Y & y Home & Health Care MGMT Trade or language school
    1,270 feet
  5. All My Children Daycare and Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Triumphant Full Gospel Assembly Church House of worship
    470 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    1,300 feet
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 53rd Street or Remsen Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.