East 16th Street & Avenue O

East 16th Street and Avenue O meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 378 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. St Brendan Church is 980 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about six minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
1,230 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue O · B49
Within a walk
9 places
5 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 16th Street & Avenue O Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kings Hwy B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave M Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Kings Highway Hieroglyphs” (1987) by Rhoda Andors at the Kings Hwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Avenue O, 1,230 feet away, for the B49.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue O B49
    1,230 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 13th Street at Belt Parkway, 2 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
    910 feet
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 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.

  • 9 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 378 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,347th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 172 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
48
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and January 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue O

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

South side of Avenue O

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

East side of East 16th Street

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 16th Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Ucp of NYC - William O'Connor Midwo School
    920 feet
  2. Imagine Academy School
    1,010 feet
  3. Adapt Community Network Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. Free Greek Community of the "Three Ierarches" Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brendan Church House of worship
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Okka Foods Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Green Forest Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and three 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 O or East 16th 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.