East 8th Street & Parkville Avenue

East 8th Street and Parkville Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. St Rose of Lima RC Church is 290 feet away. The nearest subway, Newkirk Plaza, is about nine minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 18 places to eat. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1959, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Newkirk Plaza
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
620 feet
Coney Island Av/Newkirk Av · B8, B68
Within a walk
20 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Newkirk Plaza, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Transit Skylight” (1988) by David Wilson at the Newkirk Plaza station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Newkirk Av, 620 feet away, for the B8 and B68.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Newkirk Av B8, B68
    620 feet
    B8 B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …
  2. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3701 18th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.4 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 1925 and 1959.

Since 2014 at least 38 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and November 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 8th Street

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

West side of East 8th Street

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

North side of Parkville Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Parkville Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 8AM-8PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 older adult centers
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Dreams Charter School
    490 feet
  2. Peace Academy School
    840 feet
  3. Nayema Universal Child Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
Show all 9
  1. P.S. 217 Colonel David Marcus School
    890 feet
  2. Step Up Therapy Services Pt, Ot, SLP Preschool
    1,050 feet
  3. Inst for Career Training & Developme Trade or language school
    1,120 feet
  4. Manhattan School of Computer Technol Trade or language school
    1,120 feet
  5. Snapdragon Place Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  6. Nesivos Bais Yaakov School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Newkirk Community Garden
    290 feet

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1075 Coney Island Avenue Older adult center
    1,060 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1081 Coney Island Avenue Older adult center
    1,130 feet
  3. Older adult center at 817 Avenue H Older adult center
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 8th Street or Parkville Avenue.

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