Ocean Avenue & Avenue S

Ocean Avenue and Avenue S meet at a four-way crossing in Madison, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 3,247 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. St Edmund Elementary School is 1,230 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ocean Av/Avenue S, is 100 feet away for the B49 and BM3, and 11 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them religious buildings.

Safety record
17 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue S · B49, BM3
Within a walk
10 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Avenue S Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Avenue S, 100 feet away, for the B49 and BM3.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue S B49, BM3
    100 feet
    B49 BM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 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, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2001 Gravesend Neck Road Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1730 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 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, February 2017
  • Turn calming, October 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 3,247 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 272nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,509 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on Ocean Avenue2,7871,289
Northbound on Ocean Avenue460220
Total3,2471,509

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Madison
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,800 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 1941.

Since 2014 at least 32 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

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 July 2020 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue S

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue S

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 234 Arthur W. Cunningham School
    1,070 feet
  2. St Edmund Elementary School
    1,230 feet
  3. St Edmund Prep High School
    1,250 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 255 Barbara Reing School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kelly Park Playground
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Star Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue S 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.