East 14th Street & Avenue H

East 14th Street and Avenue H meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Avenue H Station House stands 460 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave H, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave H
350 feet · 1 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
Coney Island Av/Avenue H · B68
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 14th Street & Avenue H Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave H, 350 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave H Q
    350 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Ave J Q
    0.4 miles
    Q
  2. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brooklyn Bucolic” (2012) by Ed Kopel at the Ave H station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Avenue H, 900 feet away, for the B68.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Avenue H B68
    900 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Avenue H and Rugby Road.

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1248 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.6 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
38 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 1910 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 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
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue H

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue H

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of East 14th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of East 14th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

East side of Rugby Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Rugby Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 44 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival with alterations. They were mostly built between 1906 and 1911.

  1. Avenue H Station House Designated landmark
    460 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. The Joan Snow Pre-K Center at 1139 Coney Island Avenue Pre-K center
    810 feet
  2. Hebrew Institute for the Deaf School
    840 feet
  3. Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin School
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Step Up Therapy Services Pt, Ot, SLP Preschool
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue H, East 14th Street or Rugby Road.

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