East 19th Street & Avenue R

East 19th Street and Avenue R meet at a four-way crossing in Madison, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 544 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Kelly Park Playground is 1,040 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, six of them schools. About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1952, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Avenue R/Ocean Av · B2, B31
Within a walk
12 places
6 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 19th Street & Avenue R Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kings Hwy 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 …

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 Avenue R/Ocean Av, 310 feet away, for the B2 and B31.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue R/Ocean Av B2, B31
    310 feet
    B2 B31

Next buses at this stop

  1. B2 …
  2. B31 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 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, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1730 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 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.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 544 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,134th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 184 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Madison
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 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 1930 and 1952.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the American hornbeam and the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Avenue R

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Avenue R

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of East 19th Street

  • Ambulances and ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULANCE AMBULETTE ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 playground
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Bnos Esther Malka School
    700 feet
  2. Prospect Park Yeshiva School
    700 feet
  3. Kings Way Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
Show all 9
  1. Prospect Park Bnos Leah High Sch School
    820 feet
  2. Bnos Leah Seminary Trade or language school
    820 feet
  3. Alaphim Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    940 feet
  4. J.H.S. 234 Arthur W. Cunningham School
    970 feet
  5. Yeshivat Kinyan Torah School
    1,030 feet
  6. P.S. 255 Barbara Reing School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kelly Park Playground
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Not on record for this corner: 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 R or East 19th Street.

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