Avenue M & East 8th Street

Avenue M and East 8th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Mapleton-Midwood (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yeshivat Mekor Haim HS is 1,120 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Avenue M/E 9 St · B9
Within a walk
20 places
10 religious buildings, 5 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave M 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 N F
    0.4 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Hare Apparent” (2011) by Rita MacDonald at the Ave M station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue M/E 9 St, 180 feet away, for the B9.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue M/E 9 St B9
    180 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1780 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

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
31 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1931.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

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
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

North side of Avenue M

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

South side of Avenue M

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

East side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Bais Frieda Child Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    820 feet
  2. YDE School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  3. Yeshiva Darche Eres - Kindergarten School
    1,000 feet
Show all 10
  1. Omni Childhood Center Preschool
    1,030 feet
  2. Yeshivat Mekor Haim HS School
    1,120 feet
  3. Academy for Social Action Trade or language school
    1,150 feet
  4. Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin School
    1,150 feet
  5. Nesivos Bais Yaakov Boys School
    1,160 feet
  6. Peer Hatorah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,210 feet
  7. Shaare Torah School
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Moisha's Kosher Discount Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Pomegranate Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.