Midwood

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Bounded on the north by the Brooklyn College campus and the Bay Ridge Branch rail line and on the south by Avenue P and Kings Highway, Midwood is a south-central Brooklyn neighborhood with Avenue J and Avenue M among its shopping streets.

  • 1.16 square miles
  • 52,891 residents, 2020 Census
  • 162 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 14 bus routes

Its name comes from Midwout, or middle woods, the Dutch settlers' name for the forest here. The area stayed largely rural until it joined the City of Brooklyn in the 1890s and filled with houses and apartments in the 1920s. Vitagraph opened film studios near Avenue M in 1907, and the Van Nuyse-Magaw House, a Dutch Colonial farmhouse from about 1800, became a city landmark in 1969.

Sources: Midwood, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Van Nuyse-Magaw House (LP-0175) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

Map

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Midwood borders six areas, and Avenue K and Avenue M hold more of its corners than any other street, 20 each of 162.

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  • Midwood
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Avenue H lines Q accessible
  • Avenue J lines Q
  • Avenue M lines Q

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of Midwood.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 11 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B6
  • B7
  • B9
  • B11
  • B44
  • B44-SBS
  • B49
  • B68
  • B82
  • B82-SBS
  • T464

Express bus routes

  • BM1
  • BM3
  • BM4

Safety record

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

  • 1,193 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.4 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 8 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 59 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
37
Accessible pedestrian signals
30
Turn calming
11
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 16,570 school-zone speed camera tickets at 17 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Ocean Avenue & Bay Avenue, 2,700

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 52,891 residents in Midwood, about 45,600 per square mile.

  • 19,397 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,370 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,338 residential lots hold buildings from 1925 or earlier, and 90% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
2.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Kolbert Playground (1.7 acres) and Andries Playground (1 acre)
Designated landmark
The Avenue H Station House

Streets and trees

Trees
4,967 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Japanese zelkova and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Avenue K, with 20 of the area's 162
Height above sea level
From 17 feet at East 24th Street & Avenue P to 40 feet at Coney Island Avenue & Avenue I
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 30 schools and one library in Midwood.

Public schools
7
Charter and private schools
23
Library
Midwood Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 294 major felonies at places in Midwood.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Midwood

  • 282 major felonies in 2024
  • 962 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Midwood, the NYPD recorded another 82 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 7.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Midwood.

Map of Midwood: 14 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Midwood, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Midwood, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Midwood are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Midwood and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
70th (most of the area), 63rd, 61st
Major felonies recorded at places in Midwood, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 108 major felonies at places in Midwood, against 147 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.