Ocean Avenue & Avenue N

Ocean Avenue and Avenue N meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Moshe Berkowitz Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz is 360 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about seven minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
16 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue N · B49, BM3
Within a walk
14 places
8 religious buildings, 3 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Avenue N Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Ave M Q
    0.3 miles
    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 N, 80 feet away, for the B49 and BM3.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue N B49, BM3
    80 feet
    B49 BM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 13th Street at Belt Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    1,020 feet
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2022
  • Turn calming, December 2022
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44 and 48 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Moshe Berkowitz Way, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1928 and 1953.

Since 2014 at least 24 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Moshe Berkowitz Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 46 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and August 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue N

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue N

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-5PM

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY 6AM-11PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Joseph S Gruss Yeshiva HS School
    360 feet
  2. Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz School
    360 feet
  3. Promise World Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
Show all 6
  1. Imaginarium Child Pre-K
    790 feet
  2. Shaare Torah High School-Girls School
    1,070 feet
  3. Beacon Healthcare School Trade or language school
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Derech Emunah Viener House of worship
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 15 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 N or Ocean Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.