East 7th Street & Church Avenue

East 7th Street and Church Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Flatbush Jewish Center is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat. A bus lane runs along Church Avenue, 7am to 7pm.

Safety record
8 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Church Av/E 7 St · B35, B103, BM3, BM4
Within a walk
11 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Church Av/E 7 St, 70 feet away, for the B35, B103, BM3 and BM4.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Church Av/E 7 St B35, B103, BM3, BM4 · Countdown sign
    70 feet
    B35 B103 BM3 BM4
    Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …
  2. B103 …
  3. BM3 …
  4. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Church Avenue carries a bus lane, 7am to 7pm on Monday to Saturday.

Cycling

  • 32 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ocean Pkwy & Church Ave 25 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 396 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2018
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
40
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 1925 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Church Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Church Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East 7th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of East 7th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 301492.

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built in 1909.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Shaare Torah Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    770 feet
  2. Shaare Torah Elementary School-Girls School
    780 feet
  3. M.S. 890 School
    1,010 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 889 School
    1,010 feet
  2. M.S. 839 School
    1,030 feet
  3. Honeydew Drop Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Flatbush Jewish Center House of worship
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    960 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and 18 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Church Avenue or East 7th Street.

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