East 18th Street & Avenue X

East 18th Street and Avenue X meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 254 Dag Hammarskjold is 600 feet away. The nearest subway, Neck Rd, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Neck Rd
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
620 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue X · B49
Within a walk
10 places
5 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Neck Rd Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “West Wall, East Light, Morning” (2011) by Mary Temple at the Neck Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Avenue X, 620 feet away, for the B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue X B49
    620 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Avenue X.

  • 8 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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2001 Gravesend Neck Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

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.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Avenue X

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

South side of Avenue X

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

East side of East 18th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of East 18th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

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
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 254 Dag Hammarskjold School
    600 feet
  2. Magic Kingdom of Sheepshead Bay Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
  3. Fantasia D. C. C. Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. A2Z Happyland III Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay House of worship
    910 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Homecrest Post Office
    310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Star Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and ten 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 X or East 18th Street.

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