Ocean Avenue & Avenue M

Ocean Avenue and Avenue M meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. In 2025, 1,011 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Shaare Torah High School-Girls is 190 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about five minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
1,240 feet · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue M · B49, T464
Within a walk
23 places
10 religious buildings, 6 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Avenue M Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 1,240 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Ave M Q
    1,240 feet
    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 Ocean Av/Avenue M, 120 feet away, for the B49 and T464.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue M B49, T464 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B49 T464
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. T464 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 39 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, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, March 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,011 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 754th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 507 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44 and 45 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 2,400 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 1930 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 35 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and January 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue M

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue M

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY 8AM-7PM, 4 HOUR METERED PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 302940, 304946, 309059 and 316880.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 6 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Shaare Torah High School-Girls School
    190 feet
  2. Merkaz the Center School
    500 feet
  3. Beacon Healthcare School Trade or language school
    550 feet
Show all 11
  1. Ivdu Elementary School
    860 feet
  2. Yeshivat Shaarei Rachamim School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    890 feet
  3. Bereshith Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  4. Fun Studios Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,110 feet
  5. Joseph S Gruss Yeshiva HS School
    1,240 feet
  6. Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz School
    1,240 feet
  7. Yeshiva Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky School
    1,280 feet
  8. New York Career Training School Trade or language school
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kolbert Playground
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Midwood House of worship
    850 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1694 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    1,320 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 22 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue M or Ocean Avenue.

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