East 18th Street & Avenue I

East 18th Street and Avenue I meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Masores Bais Yaakov High School is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave J, is about five minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1927 and 1948, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave J
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue I · B49, BM1, BM3, BM4
Within a walk
7 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 18th Street & Avenue I Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave J, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Ave J Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bird Laid Bare” (2011) by Rita MacDonald at the Ave J station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Avenue I, 610 feet away, for the B49, BM1, BM3 and BM4.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue I B49, BM1, BM3, BM4
    610 feet
    B49 BM1 BM3 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM1 …
  3. BM3 …
  4. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1248 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44 and 45 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
34 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1948.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue I

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue I

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East 18th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of East 18th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Masores Bais Yaakov Elementary School
    730 feet
  2. Masores Bais Yaakov High School
    730 feet
  3. Yeshiva of Flatbush-Joel Braverman H School
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Midwood Library
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Avenue J House of worship
    870 feet

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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue I or East 18th Street.

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