Avenue K & East 18th Street

Avenue K and East 18th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bais Avrohom Dkrula Spinka is 490 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave J, is about six minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, five of them religious buildings. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1922 and 1929, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave J
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue K · B49, BM3
Within a walk
13 places
5 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave J, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. Ave J Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Ave M Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

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 Ocean Av/Avenue K, 630 feet away, for the B49 and BM3.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue K B49, BM3
    630 feet
    B49 BM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1248 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 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.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 1922 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue K

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue K

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of East 18th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 18th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky School
    1,170 feet
  2. Touro University - Flatbush College
    1,220 feet
  3. Bereshith Pre-K
    1,260 feet
Show all 5
  1. Fun Studios Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,260 feet
  2. Congregation Ohr Shlomo School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kolbert Playground
    930 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. East Midwood Jewish Center Listed historic place
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bais Avrohom Dkrula Spinka House of worship
    490 feet
  2. E Midwood Jewish Center House of worship
    850 feet
  3. Young Israel of Avenue J House of worship
    970 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1625 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Pomegranate Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Not on record for this corner: 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 K or East 18th Street.

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