East 5th Street & 18th Avenue

East 5th Street and 18th Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. K134 is 180 feet away. The nearest subway, 18 Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them religious buildings, and five places to eat. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1964, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
8 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
18 Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
18 Av/E 5 St · B8
Within a walk
14 places
6 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 5th Street & 18th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 18 Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 18 Av F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Ditmas Av F
    0.4 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “We are each others” (2018) by Julien Gardair at the 18 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 18 Av/E 5 St, 110 feet away, for the B8.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 18 Av/E 5 St B8
    110 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ditmas Ave & McDonald Ave 23 docks in all
    0.5 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3701 18th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    870 feet
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
40
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
46 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 1930 and 1964.

Since 2014 at least 20 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on 18th Avenue (south side).

North side of 18th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of East 5th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 5th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 302937 and 304705.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. K134 School
    180 feet
  2. Mevakshai Hashem School
    940 feet
  3. Yismach Lev Trans Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,010 feet
Show all 6
  1. Smiley Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,090 feet
  2. Yeshiva Torah Temimah School
    1,140 feet
  3. Yeshiva Bais Chaya Esther School
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kensington Library
    810 feet
  2. Ocean Parkway Jewish Center Listed historic place
    910 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,000 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    430 feet
  2. Landau's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and nine 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 18th Avenue or East 5th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.