8th Avenue & 18th Street

The five-way junction of 8th Avenue and 18th Street is in Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Butterfly Gardens is 480 feet away, and Memorial Baptist Church is 1,210 feet away. The nearest subway, 15 St-Prospect Park, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them schools, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
15 St-Prospect Park
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
19 St/8 Av · B61, B67, B69
Within a walk
10 places
4 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & 18th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 15 St-Prospect Park, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 15 St-Prospect Park F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 19 St/8 Av, 400 feet away, for the B61, B67 and B69.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 19 St/8 Av B61, B67, B69
    400 feet
    B61 B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …
  2. B67 …
  3. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 19 St & 8 Ave 23 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 19th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1,120 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 668 3rd Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
39
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Windsor Terrace-South Slope

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 18th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

South side of 18th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

West side of 8th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Therapy and Learning Center Preschool
    60 feet
  2. Mesilas Bais Yaakov School
    420 feet
  3. Kids-Centric Preschool
    860 feet
Show all 6
  1. Magnet School of Math, Science and Design Technology School
    990 feet
  2. J.H.S. 088 Peter Rouget School
    1,100 feet
  3. P.S. K053 School
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Butterfly Gardens Garden
    480 feet
  2. Detective Joseph Mayrose Park
    840 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 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 Street, 8th Avenue, 8th Avenue Pedestrian Overpass or Prospect Expressway.

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