East 24th Street & Avenue P

East 24th Street and Avenue P meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Corporal Wiltshire Square is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about nine minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1940, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Kings Hwy/E 22 St · B7, B82
Within a walk
10 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 24th Street & Avenue P Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine 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 Kings Hwy/E 22 St, 440 feet away, for the B7 and B82.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/E 22 St B7, B82 · Shelter
    440 feet
    B7 B82
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

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
    0.4 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

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)
Midwood
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 1940.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue P

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Avenue P

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 24th Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Dutch Colonial, and built in 1766.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Smiles Childcare Pre-K
    490 feet
  2. P.S. 197 - the Kings Highway Academy School
    910 feet
  3. James Madison High School
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Corporal Wiltshire Square
    940 feet

Health care

  1. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
    1,170 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Kings Highway Library
    1,220 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
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue P or East 24th Street.

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