Ocean Parkway & Avenue M

Ocean Parkway and Avenue M meet at a four-way crossing in Mapleton-Midwood (West), Brooklyn. The corner is also named William “Bill” Bernstein Parkway by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 49 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 139 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Yeshivat Mekor Haim HS is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave N, is about six minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
43 hurt
49 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave N
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Ocean Pkwy South/Avenue M · B9
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 3 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Parkway & Avenue M Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Ave N F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Push/Pull” (2018) by Lisa Sigal at the Ave N station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Pkwy South/Avenue M, 50 feet away, for the B9.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Pkwy South/Avenue M B9
    50 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

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 & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1780 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 49 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 42 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 7 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2022
  • Turn calming, June 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 139 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 168th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 1,119 more were issued.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on Ocean Parkway1391,102
Westbound on Avenue M–17
Total1391,119

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mapleton-Midwood (West)
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

This corner is also named William “Bill” Bernstein Parkway, a co-naming enacted on October 20, 2003 (Local Law 62 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to six travel lanes

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1929 and 1956.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 104 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on William “Bill” Bernstein Parkway.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 83 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 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 M

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

South side of Avenue M

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 16 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ocean Parkway

  • Ambulances and ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULANCE AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8 AM-8PM
  • No parking 27 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY
  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 field

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Mekor Haim HS School
    430 feet
  2. Nesivos Bais Yaakov Boys School
    470 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
Show all 4
  1. Yeshiva of Brooklyn School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Friends Field
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Moisha's Kosher Discount Supermarket Supermarket
    770 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue M or Ocean Parkway.

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