East 7th Street & Avenue K

East 7th Street and Avenue K meet at a four-way crossing in Mapleton-Midwood (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 099 Isaac Asimov is 970 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue J/E 8 St, is 1,090 feet away for the B6, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

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East 7th Street & Avenue K Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue J/E 8 St, 1,090 feet away, for the B6.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue J/E 8 St B6
    1,090 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1248 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.7 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mapleton-Midwood (West)
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue K

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue K

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 7th Street

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

West side of East 7th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 8AM-10AM 3PM-5PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Marilyn David Ivdu Upper Girls Schoo School
    590 feet
  2. P.S. 099 Isaac Asimov School
    970 feet
  3. Yeled V'Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Pomegranate Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and one food store.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, two of them within a three-minute walk:

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