East 21st Street & Avenue K

East 21st Street and Avenue K meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Urban Dove Team Charter School is 450 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave J, is about nine minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, 13 of them religious buildings. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1924 and 1929, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
6 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave J
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue K · B49, BM1, BM3, BM4
Within a walk
18 places
13 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 21st Street & Avenue K Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave J, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Ave J Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bird Laid Bare” (2011) by Rita MacDonald at the Ave J station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Avenue K, 310 feet away, for the B49, BM1, BM3 and BM4.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue K B49, BM1, BM3, BM4
    310 feet
    B49 BM1 BM3 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM1 …
  3. BM3 …
  4. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.7 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
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1924 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue K

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Avenue K

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of East 21st Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 21st Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Urban Dove Team Charter School
    450 feet
  2. Urban Dove Team Charter School V School
    450 feet
  3. Fun Studios Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    950 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. East Midwood Jewish Center Listed historic place
    500 feet

Houses of worship

  1. E Midwood Jewish Center House of worship
    430 feet
  2. Bais Avrohom Dkrula Spinka House of worship
    1,150 feet
  3. Young Israel of Midwood House of worship
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1625 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    570 feet

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 K or East 21st Street.

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