Seaview Avenue & East 98th Street

Seaview Avenue and East 98th Street meet at a three-way junction in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Jamaica Bay Library is 130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Seaview Av/Rockaway Pkwy, is 150 feet away for the B17, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

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Seaview Avenue & East 98th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Seaview Av/Rockaway Pkwy, 150 feet away, for the B17.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seaview Av/Rockaway Pkwy B17 · Shelter
    150 feet
    B17
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B17 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 9612 Rockaway Parkway Gas station
    600 feet
  2. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    1.2 miles

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1960.

Trees

Sixteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 4 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Seaview Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Little Princeton Nursery and Day Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    610 feet
  2. Hebrew Educational Society of Brooklyn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  3. P.S. 272 Curtis Estabrook School
    900 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bayview Playground
    400 feet
  2. Canarsie Park
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jamaica Bay Library
    130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Jude Church House of worship
    1,130 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Hebrew Educational Society Community Center
    870 feet
  2. Older adult center at 9502 Seaview Avenue Older adult center
    1,000 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    370 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    930 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and three food stores.

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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

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