Avenue J & East 8th Street

Avenue J and East 8th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Mapleton-Midwood (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 701 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Congregation Talmud Torah of Flatbush is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave J, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave J
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Avenue J/E 8 St · B6
Within a walk
10 places
8 religious buildings, 1 post office and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue J & East 8th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave J, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave J Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave I F
    0.5 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bird Laid Bare” (2011) by Rita MacDonald at the Ave J station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue J/E 8 St, 110 feet away, for the B6.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue J/E 8 St B6
    110 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1248 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.6 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 701 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 980th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 359 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mapleton-Midwood (West)
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue J

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

South side of Avenue J

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

East side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 8th Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Pathway Study Center Inc (The) School
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Talmud Torah of Flatbush House of worship
    970 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Midwood Post Office
    1,060 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    870 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    890 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Pomegranate Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue J or East 8th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.