East 22nd Street & Avenue K

East 22nd Street and Avenue K 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. E Midwood Jewish Center is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave J, is about ten minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, nine of them religious buildings. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1922 and 1928, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Map

Layers
East 22nd Street & Avenue K Nearby corners, linked

Subway

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

  1. Ave J Q
    0.5 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, 570 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
    570 feet
    B49 BM1 BM3 BM4

Next buses at this stop

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

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 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
    0.8 miles
  2. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.8 miles

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2022

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 1,300 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 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and October 2017, 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 22nd Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 22nd Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 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
    710 feet
  2. Urban Dove Team Charter School V School
    710 feet
  3. Fun Studios Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. East Midwood Jewish Center Listed historic place
    760 feet

Houses of worship

  1. E Midwood Jewish Center House of worship
    590 feet

Community centers and public services

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

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:

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