East 18th Street & Cortelyou Road

East 18th Street and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Cortelyou Rd, is about three minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat. About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1926 and 1958, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
9 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cortelyou Rd
750 feet · 3 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Cortelyou Rd/E 18 St · B103, BM1, BM2, BM3 +1
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 18th Street & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Cortelyou Rd, 750 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    750 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Beverley Rd Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Garden Stops” (1994) by Patsy Norvell at the Cortelyou Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cortelyou Rd/E 18 St, 60 feet away, for the B103, BM1, BM2, BM3 and BM4.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cortelyou Rd/E 18 St B103, BM1, BM2, BM3 +1
    60 feet
    B103 BM1 BM2 BM3 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B103 …
  2. BM1 …
  3. BM2 …
  4. BM3 …
  5. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 19 St & Cortelyou Rd 23 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 842 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11226
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 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 1926 and 1958.

Since 2014 at least 76 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and August 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cortelyou Road

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

South side of Cortelyou Road

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

East side of East 18th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 18th Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 25 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, Queen Anne and Queen Anne/Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1903 and 1910.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. B'Above Worldwide Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    390 feet
  2. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  3. P.S. 245 School
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Global Health Care Training Centre,i Trade or language school
    1,240 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Church of the Holy Innocents Listed historic place
    980 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church Landmark
    910 feet
  2. Unity East Church Center House of worship
    1,100 feet
  3. Fernande Valme Ministries House of worship
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    540 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    680 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cortelyou Road or East 18th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.