East 22nd Street & Avenue O

East 22nd Street and Avenue O meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital is 1,080 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ocean Av/Avenue O, is 640 feet away for the B49, and 13 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, six of them religious buildings. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1927 and 1940, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
1 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue O · B49
Within a walk
13 places
6 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Avenue O, 640 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 38 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, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    520 feet
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017

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
23 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 1940.

Since 2014 at least 30 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 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 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 22nd Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of East 22nd Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 197 - the Kings Highway Academy School
    560 feet
  2. Promise World Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    800 feet
  3. Imaginarium Child Pre-K
    940 feet
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  1. Bright Smiles Childcare Pre-K
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Corporal Wiltshire Square
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Derech Emunah Viener House of worship
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Green Forest Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue O or East 22nd 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.