East 7th Street & Cortelyou Road

East 7th Street and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. J.H.S. 062 Ditmas is 240 feet away. The nearest subway, Ditmas Av, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat. About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1962, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ditmas Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
Coney Island Av/Cortelyou Rd · B68
Within a walk
14 places
5 religious buildings, 5 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 7th Street & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ditmas Av F
    0.4 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Inheritance: In Memory of American Glass” (2016) by Cara Lynch at the Ditmas Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Cortelyou Rd, 950 feet away, for the B68.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Cortelyou Rd B68
    950 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cortelyou Rd & E 8 St 16 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 842 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2018

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
43 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cortelyou Road

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

East side of East 7th Street

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of East 7th Street

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 062 Ditmas School
    240 feet
  2. Shira's Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    800 feet
  3. Bonim Lamokom School
    900 feet
Show all 8
  1. Torah Vodaath High School
    900 feet
  2. Honeydew Cortelyou Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,070 feet
  3. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School
    1,140 feet
  4. Mosdos Satmar BP School
    1,170 feet
  5. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Palm Gardens Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,240 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 12 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cortelyou Road 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.