East 18th Street & Avenue O

East 18th Street and Avenue O meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kingsway Post Office is 1,170 feet away, and Reach for the Stars Learning Center is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about seven minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue O · B49
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kings Hwy B, Q
    0.4 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
    0.5 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, 690 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

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
25 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1928 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 69 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and April 2025, 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 18th Street

  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 18th Street

  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Promise World Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  2. Imaginarium Child Pre-K
    990 feet
  3. Joseph S Gruss Yeshiva HS School
    1,220 feet
Show all 6
  1. Free Greek Community of the "Three Ierarches" Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
  2. Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz School
    1,220 feet
  3. Reach for the Stars Learning Center School
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kingsway Post Office
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  2. Green Forest Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Okka Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,320 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

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

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.