East 8th Street & Cortelyou Road

East 8th Street and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Torah Vodaath High School is 600 feet away. The nearest subway, Cortelyou Rd, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 30 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Cortelyou Rd
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
650 feet
Coney Island Av/Cortelyou Rd · B68
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 8th Street & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cortelyou Rd Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Ditmas Av F
    0.5 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Garden Stops” (1994) by Patsy Norvell at the Cortelyou Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Cortelyou Rd, 650 feet away, for the B68.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 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
    40 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
    0.6 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 11 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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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
40 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the dawn redwood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cortelyou Road

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

South side of Cortelyou Road

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 8th Street

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

West side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 062 Ditmas School
    360 feet
  2. Bonim Lamokom School
    600 feet
  3. Torah Vodaath High School
    600 feet
Show all 7
  1. Honeydew Cortelyou Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    760 feet
  2. Yeshiva Torah Vodaath School
    830 feet
  3. Cortelyou Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  4. Shira's Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 places to eat and 15 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 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.