East 18th Street & Ditmas Avenue

East 18th Street and Ditmas Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Ditmas Park Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Pilgrim Wesleyan Church is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Plaza, is about six minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Newkirk Plaza
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
720 feet
Ocean Av/Ditmas Av · BM1, BM3, BM4
Within a walk
6 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Plaza 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. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Transit Skylight” (1988) by David Wilson at the Newkirk Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Ditmas Av, 720 feet away, for the BM1, BM3 and BM4.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Ditmas Av BM1, BM3, BM4
    720 feet
    BM1 BM3 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. BM1 …
  2. BM3 …
  3. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 19 St & Cortelyou Rd 23 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1261 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.4 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
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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 (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 1922 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 81 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2020 and May 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ditmas Avenue

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

South side of Ditmas Avenue

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

East side of East 18th Street

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

West side of East 18th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Ditmas Park Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 319 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1903 and 1909.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Foster Avenue Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet

Health care

  1. Ditmas Park Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ditmas Park Historic District Listed historic place
    120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Pilgrim Wesleyan Church House of worship
    730 feet
  2. Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church Landmark
    830 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 961 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    800 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,290 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and eight 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 Ditmas Avenue 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.