East 8th Street & 18th Avenue

East 8th Street and 18th Avenue 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. Peace Academy is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, 18 Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1963, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
18 Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
18 Av/E 8 St · B8
Within a walk
17 places
8 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 8th Street & 18th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 18 Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 18 Av F
    0.5 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “We are each others” (2018) by Julien Gardair at the 18 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 18 Av/E 8 St, 100 feet away, for the B8.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 18 Av/E 8 St B8
    100 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cortelyou Rd & E 8 St 16 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3701 18th Avenue Gas station
    670 feet
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    1,120 feet
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
40
Police precinct
66 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
34 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 1963.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2015 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 18th Avenue

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

South side of 18th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Torah Temimah School
    960 feet
  2. Snapdragon Place Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  3. Inst for Career Training & Developme Trade or language school
    1,030 feet
Show all 8
  1. Peace Academy School
    1,030 feet
  2. Manhattan School of Computer Technol Trade or language school
    1,030 feet
  3. Brooklyn Dreams Charter School
    1,030 feet
  4. P.S. K134 School
    1,270 feet
  5. Nayema Universal Child Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Newkirk Community Garden
    540 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Rose of Lima RC Church House of worship
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 18th Avenue or East 8th 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.