East 53rd Street & Snyder Avenue

East 53rd Street and Snyder Avenue meet at a four-way crossing 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, 326 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Universal Church is 1,010 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utica Av/Snyder Av, is 900 feet away for the B46, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
2.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
Utica Av/Snyder Av · B46
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utica Av/Snyder Av, 900 feet away, for the B46.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utica Av/Snyder Av B46
    900 feet
    B46

Next buses at this stop

  1. B46 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Snyder Ave & Schenectady Ave 19 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5802 Church Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 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.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 326 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,420th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 130 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
45
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Rugby
Elevation
27 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the hardy rubber tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 53rd Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 53rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Snyder Avenue

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

South side of Snyder Avenue

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Oholei Torah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    230 feet
  2. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    230 feet
  3. Faces of the Future Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn Science and Engineering Academy School
    1,300 feet
  2. P.S. 244 Richard R. Green School
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Robinson, John Roosevelt Jackie" Listed historic place
    800 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Universal Church House of worship
    1,010 feet
  2. Rugby Congregational Church Listed historic place
    1,040 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 310/Ladder 174 Fire station
    530 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,220 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

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

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