East 7th Street & Ditmas Avenue

East 7th Street and Ditmas Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yeshiva Torah Temimah is 700 feet away. The nearest subway, Ditmas Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat. About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1931 and 1963, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
8 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ditmas Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,030 feet
Coney Island Av/Ditmas Av · B68
Within a walk
18 places
8 religious buildings, 7 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Ditmas 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 “Inheritance: In Memory of American Glass” (2016) by Cara Lynch at the Ditmas Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Ditmas Av, 1,030 feet away, for the B68.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Ditmas Av B68
    1,030 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cortelyou Rd & E 8 St 16 docks in all
    1,180 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
39 and 40 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1931 and 1963.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 45 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ditmas Avenue

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

South side of Ditmas Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

East side of East 7th Street

  • No parking 15 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 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 7 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Mosdos Satmar BP School
    290 feet
  2. Yeshiva Torah Temimah School
    700 feet
  3. J.H.S. 062 Ditmas School
    820 feet
Show all 9
  1. Yismach Lev Trans Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
  2. Shira's Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet
  3. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School
    1,000 feet
  4. Mevakshai Hashem School
    1,100 feet
  5. Bonim Lamokom School
    1,280 feet
  6. Torah Vodaath High School
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ocean Parkway Jewish Center Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    840 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ditmas 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.