Avenue N & East 8th Street

Avenue N 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. In 2025, 2,227 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Shaare Torah School is 950 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave N, is about nine minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave N
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
880 feet
Avenue N/Ocean Pkwy · B9
Within a walk
12 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

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

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave M Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Push/Pull” (2018) by Lisa Sigal at the Ave N station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue N/Ocean Pkwy, 880 feet away, for the B9.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue N/Ocean Pkwy B9
    880 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1780 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2705 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.

  • 2 people injured
  • 1 person 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, 2,227 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 388th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 833 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
31 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue N

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

South side of Avenue N

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

East side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. Shaare Torah School
    950 feet
  2. Bais Frieda Child Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    960 feet
  3. Peer Hatorah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,050 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bet Yaakov Ohr Sarah School
    1,050 feet
  2. Yesodot Hatorah-Girls School
    1,070 feet
  3. P.S. 199 Frederick Wachtel School
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

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 of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue N 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.