East 17th Street & Avenue O

East 17th Street and Avenue O meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, 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, 846 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Imagine Academy is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about seven minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
960 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue O · B49
Within a walk
10 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 17th 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 seven 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, 960 feet away, for the B49.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue O B49
    960 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, 2.1 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
    1,180 feet
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 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.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 846 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 863rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 475 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
24 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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.

Since 2014 at least 32 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and July 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 17th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 17th Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Free Greek Community of the "Three Ierarches" Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  2. Promise World Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,130 feet
  3. Ucp of NYC - William O'Connor Midwo School
    1,190 feet
Show all 5
  1. Imaginarium Child Pre-K
    1,260 feet
  2. Imagine Academy School
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brendan Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and two 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue O or East 17th Street.

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