Mapleton-Midwood (West)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

This area brings together Mapleton, the section around Washington Cemetery and Bay Parkway, and the western edge of Midwood, where Ocean Parkway runs south toward Coney Island.

  • 1.12 square miles
  • 39,137 residents, 2020 Census
  • 143 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 6 bus routes

Midwood's name is an English form of the Dutch Midwout, meaning middle woods. Ocean Parkway was built between 1874 and 1876 as a five-and-a-half-mile tree-lined route from Prospect Park to the beaches at Coney Island, and Washington Cemetery, founded in 1850 and used for Jewish burials since at least 1857, has a main section edged on three sides by Ocean Parkway, Bay Parkway and McDonald Avenue.

Sources: Washington Cemetery (Brooklyn) (Wikipedia); From Forest to City: How Midwood Got Its Name (Brownstoner); Ocean Parkway Malls History (NYC Parks); Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn) (Wikipedia).

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Mapleton-Midwood (West) borders six areas, and Dahill Road holds more of its corners than any other street, 17 of 143.

Street map of Mapleton-Midwood (West), Brooklyn, outlined among Bensonhurst, Midwood, Borough Park and Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, with its four subway stations and Friends Field.Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-ParkvilleMidwoodGravesend (East)-HomecrestGravesend (West)BensonhurstBorough Park
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Avenue I lines F
  • Bay Pkwy lines F
  • Avenue N lines F
  • Avenue P lines F

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on six routes stop in or at the edge of Mapleton-Midwood (West).

  • 4 subway stations
  • 6 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B6
  • B8
  • B9
  • B11
  • B68
  • B90

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,223 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 8.6 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 7 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 38 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
24
Accessible pedestrian signals
19
Turn calming
7
Enhanced crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 17,532 red-light camera tickets at three corners
  • 30,892 school-zone speed camera tickets at 14 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Ocean Parkway & Avenue I, 14,477
Most speed tickets
Ocean Parkway & Avenue O, 8,884

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 39,137 residents in Mapleton-Midwood (West), about 34,900 per square mile.

  • 12,878 homes, 2020 Census
  • 555 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,836 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 85% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
14.1 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Friends Field (6.4 acres), Gravesend Park (5 acres) and Colonel David Marcus Playground (2.6 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,909 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Dahill Road, with 17 of the area's 143
Height above sea level
From 23 feet at Avenue M & Dahill Road to 47 feet at McDonald Avenue & Elmwood Avenue
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 24 schools and two libraries in Mapleton-Midwood (West).

Public schools
6
Charter and private schools
18
Libraries
Mapleton Library and Ryder Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 167 major felonies at places in Mapleton-Midwood (West).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Mapleton-Midwood (West)

  • 198 major felonies in 2024
  • 611 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Mapleton-Midwood (West), the NYPD recorded another 82 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 6.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Mapleton-Midwood (West).

Police precincts
66th (most of the area), 62nd, 70th
Major felonies recorded at places in Mapleton-Midwood (West), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 95 major felonies at places in Mapleton-Midwood (West), against 79 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.