East 96th Street & Seaview Avenue

East 96th Street and Seaview Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Our Lady of Trust Catholic Academy is 860 feet away, and Joseph F. DiNapoli Playground is 1,030 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Seaview Av/E 95 St, is 250 feet away for the B17, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Seaview Av/E 95 St · B17
Within a walk
12 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 96th Street & Seaview Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Seaview Av/E 95 St, 250 feet away, for the B17.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seaview Av/E 95 St B17
    250 feet
    B17

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 9612 Rockaway Parkway Gas station
    220 feet
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2015 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 96th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of East 96th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Seaview Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of St Jude Place

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    270 feet
  2. Our Lady of Trust Catholic Academy School
    860 feet
  3. Little Princeton Nursery and Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Canarsie Park
    890 feet
  2. Bayview Playground
    1,010 feet
  3. Joseph F. DiNapoli Playground
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jamaica Bay Library
    660 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Jude Church House of worship
    520 feet
  2. Temple Emanuel of Canarsie House of worship
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Hebrew Educational Society Community Center
    260 feet
  2. Older adult center at 9502 Seaview Avenue Older adult center
    390 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    440 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and three 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 nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 96th Street, Seaview Avenue or St Jude Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.