Avenue K & East 19th Street

Avenue K and East 19th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,621 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Young Israel of Midwood is 1,150 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave J, is about seven minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings.

Safety record
6 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave J
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue K · B49, BM3
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 2 older adult centers and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue K & East 19th 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 seven 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
    0.5 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, 370 feet away, for the B49 and BM3.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,621 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 515th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 890 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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 1,700 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 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Avenue K

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue K

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 19th Street

  • 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.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Fun Studios Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet
  2. Urban Dove Team Charter School
    1,080 feet
  3. Urban Dove Team Charter School V School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kolbert Playground
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. East Midwood Jewish Center Listed historic place
    870 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bais Avrohom Dkrula Spinka House of worship
    520 feet
  2. E Midwood Jewish Center House of worship
    590 feet
  3. Young Israel of Midwood House of worship
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Young Israel of Avenue J House of worship
    1,210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1625 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    830 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1694 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    0.4 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 19th Street.

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