Kings Highway & East 23rd Street

Kings Highway and East 23rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 246 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Reach for the Stars Learning Center is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about eight minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Kings Hwy/E 22 St · B7, B82
Within a walk
13 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kings Highway & East 23rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kings Hwy 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 “Kings Highway Hieroglyphs” (1987) by Rhoda Andors at the Kings Hwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/E 22 St, 150 feet away, for the B7 and B82.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/E 22 St B7, B82 · Shelter
    150 feet
    B7 B82
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

Kings Highway carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 13th Street at Belt Parkway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 246 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,552nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 60 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,600 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 1941.

Since 2014 at least 15 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 23rd Street

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

West side of East 23rd Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Dutch Colonial, and built in 1766.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Smiles Childcare Pre-K
    380 feet
  2. P.S. 197 - the Kings Highway Academy School
    520 feet
  3. Reach for the Stars Learning Center School
    1,280 feet
Show all 4
  1. A2Z Happyland II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Corporal Wiltshire Square
    650 feet

Health care

  1. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
    1,170 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead Listed historic place
    400 feet
  2. Kings Highway Library
    990 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kingsway Post Office
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Green Forest Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Okka Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 23rd Street or Kings Highway.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.