East 7th Street & 18th Avenue

East 7th Street and 18th Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yeshiva Torah Temimah is 640 feet away, and Mosdos Satmar BP is 1,060 feet away. The nearest subway, 18 Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
East 7th Street & 18th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 18 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 18 Av F
    0.4 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. 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 8 St, 240 feet away, for the B8.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 18 Av/E 8 St B8
    240 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cortelyou Rd & E 8 St 16 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3701 18th Avenue Gas station
    1,000 feet
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    790 feet
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
40
Police precinct
66 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
40 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,300 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 1930 and 1963.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 18th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 7th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 7th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Torah Temimah School
    640 feet
  2. P.S. K134 School
    940 feet
  3. Mosdos Satmar BP School
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. Yismach Lev Trans Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,090 feet
  2. Mevakshai Hashem School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Newkirk Community Garden
    870 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ocean Parkway Jewish Center Listed historic place
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Rose of Lima RC Church House of worship
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. Landau's Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and seven 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 18th Avenue or East 7th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.