East 98th Street & Riverdale Avenue

East 98th Street and Riverdale Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Riverdale Avenue Community School is 1,070 feet away, and Peoples Baptist Church is 1,210 feet away. The nearest subway, Saratoga Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the 3. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Saratoga Av
1,100 feet · 4 min on foot · 3
Nearest bus stop
30 feet
E 98 St/Lenox Rd · B15
Within a walk
12 places
6 religious buildings, 3 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 98th Street & Riverdale Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Saratoga Av, 1,100 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Saratoga Av 3
    1,100 feet
    3

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Sutter Av-Rutland Rd 3
    0.5 miles
    3

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Chandelier” (2017) by Nancy Baker at the Saratoga Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is E 98 St/Lenox Rd, 30 feet away, for the B15.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. E 98 St/Lenox Rd B15
    30 feet
    B15

Next buses at this stop

  1. B15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Riverdale Ave & E 98 St 16 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 24 Dumont Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1235 Linden Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11212
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 16
City Council district
41
Police precinct
67 and 73 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brownsville
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1930.

Since 2014 at least 129 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 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
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 98th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of Grafton Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Grafton Street

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

North side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Riverdale Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Step by Step Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    240 feet
  2. Riverdale Avenue Community School
    1,070 feet
  3. Riverdale Avenue Middle School
    1,070 feet
Show all 5
  1. Sco Family of Services Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  2. Uncommon Kings CMS School
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Peoples Baptist Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Fire and police

  1. Division 15/Engine 283 Fire station
    570 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Green Village Supermarket Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,280 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and 15 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 98th Street, Grafton Street or Riverdale Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, 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.