East 8th Street & Turner Place

East 8th Street and Turner Place meet at a three-way junction in Kensington, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Tyler Kobe Nichols Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. M.S. 890 is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Beverley Rd, is about ten minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Beverley Rd
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Coney Island Av/Turner Pl · B68
Within a walk
8 places
4 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 8th Street & Turner Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Beverley Rd, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Beverley Rd Q
    0.5 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Church Av F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Turner Pl, 410 feet away, for the B68.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Turner Pl B68
    410 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Turner Pl & Coney Island Ave 20 docks in all
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 396 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1,310 feet
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
40
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
47 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Tyler Kobe Nichols Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 39 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Tyler Kobe Nichols Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on East 8th Street (west side).

East side of East 8th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Turner Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Turner Place

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 305765.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 27 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and built between 1880 and 1929.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. M.S. 890 School
    440 feet
  2. P.S. 889 School
    440 feet
  3. M.S. 839 School
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. Honeydew Drop Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Mannan Halal Supermarket Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 8th Street or Turner Place.

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