East 21st Street & Avenue O

East 21st Street and Avenue O meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Corporal Wiltshire Square is 1,040 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about ten minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1927 and 1948, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kings Hwy B, Q
    0.5 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 Ocean Av/Avenue O, 380 feet away, for the B49.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue O B49
    380 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 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, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    260 feet
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
48
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 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 1927 and 1948.

Since 2014 at least 62 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue O

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue O

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 21st Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 21st Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Promise World Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    540 feet
  2. Imaginarium Child Pre-K
    680 feet
  3. P.S. 197 - the Kings Highway Academy School
    820 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bright Smiles Childcare Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Corporal Wiltshire Square
    1,040 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Derech Emunah Viener House of worship
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue O or East 21st Street.

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