East 7th Street & Avenue C

East 7th Street and Avenue C meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Palm Gardens Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation is 150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Coney Island Av/Avenue C, is 1,020 feet away for the B68, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Prospect Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,020 feet
Coney Island Av/Avenue C · B68
Within a walk
6 places
4 religious buildings, 1 nursing home or hospice and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Avenue C, 1,020 feet away, for the B68.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Avenue C B68
    1,020 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ocean Pkwy & Ave C 16 docks in all
    490 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 619 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1,120 feet
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
39
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
46 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 1925 and 1961.

Since 2014 at least 2 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the northern red oak and the silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 80 signs on these blocks
  • 19 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and October 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Avenue C

  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

North side of Avenue C

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue C

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

West side of Avenue C

  • No stopping 5 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of East 7th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of East 7th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 062 Ditmas School
    1,120 feet

Health care

  1. Palm Gardens Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,120 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and four food stores.

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 nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue C 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.