18th Avenue & East 9th Street

The three-way junction of 18th Avenue and East 9th Street is in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Newkirk Community Garden is 820 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Plaza, is about ten minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1959, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
4 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Plaza
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
18 Av/E 8 St · B8
Within a walk
15 places
6 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
18th Avenue & East 9th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Plaza, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Transit Skylight” (1988) by David Wilson at the Newkirk Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 18 Av/E 8 St, 210 feet away, for the B8.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 18 Av/E 8 St B8
    210 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cortelyou Rd & E 8 St 16 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3701 18th Avenue Gas station
    390 feet
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
40
Police precinct
66 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and March 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 18th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East 9th Street

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

West side of East 9th Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Peace Academy School
    760 feet
  2. Snapdragon Place Pre-K
    760 feet
  3. Inst for Career Training & Developme Trade or language school
    760 feet
Show all 8
  1. Manhattan School of Computer Technol Trade or language school
    760 feet
  2. Early Childhood Development Center Kaleidoscope Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  3. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School
    1,140 feet
  4. Nayema Universal Child Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  5. Yeshiva Torah Temimah School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Newkirk Community Garden
    820 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Rose of Lima RC Church House of worship
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and five 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 18th Avenue or East 9th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.