Coney Island Avenue & Chestnut Avenue

Coney Island Avenue and Chestnut Avenue meet at a three-way junction 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. Shaare Torah School is 390 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave M, is about five minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1935, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
5 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave M
1,260 feet · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Coney Island Av/Avenue M · B68
Within a walk
23 places
9 religious buildings, 8 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Coney Island Avenue & Chestnut Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave M, 1,260 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Ave M Q
    1,260 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Avenue M, 40 feet away, for the B68.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Avenue M B68
    40 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1780 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1,290 feet
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.6 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 four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
31 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,200 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 1935.

Since 2014 at least 5 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2017 and August 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles 8am to 7pm Monday to Thursday, 4 hour passenger vehicles 8am to 7pm Friday on Coney Island Avenue (west side).

North side of Chestnut Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

South side of Chestnut Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 8AM-8PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

East side of Coney Island Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 307055.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Omni Childhood Center Preschool
    130 feet
  2. YDE School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    220 feet
  3. Yeshiva Darche Eres - Kindergarten School
    310 feet
Show all 14
  1. Peer Hatorah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    300 feet
  2. Shaare Torah School
    390 feet
  3. Academy for Social Action Trade or language school
    460 feet
  4. Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin School
    460 feet
  5. P.S. 199 Frederick Wachtel School
    510 feet
  6. Bais Frieda Child Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    690 feet
  7. Bais Yaakov Academy School
    810 feet
  8. Cong Ohr Shraga D'Veretzky School
    990 feet
  9. Bet Yaakov Ohr Sarah School
    1,020 feet
  10. Yeshiva Ohr Shraga D'Veretsky School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  11. Yesodot Hatorah-Girls School
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Agudas Achim of Midwood House of worship
    740 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    480 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    880 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Pomegranate Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  2. Mountain Fruit of Ave M Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Moisha's Kosher Discount Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 17 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 of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Chestnut Avenue or Coney Island Avenue.

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.