Kings Highway & East 24th Street

Kings Highway and East 24th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Madison, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 247 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital is 830 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about ten minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings.

Safety record
6 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Kings Hwy/Bedford Av · B7, B82
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kings Highway & East 24th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kings Hwy B, Q
    0.5 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/Bedford Av, 250 feet away, for the B7 and B82.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/Bedford Av B7, B82
    250 feet
    B7 B82

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

  • 15 bicycle racks 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, 2.2 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
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 247 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,548th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
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)
Madison
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 1937.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 24th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 24th Street

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

North side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Kings Highway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-2PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Smiles Childcare Pre-K
    140 feet
  2. P.S. 197 - the Kings Highway Academy School
    870 feet
  3. James Madison High School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Corporal Wiltshire Square
    1,000 feet

Health care

  1. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
    830 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead Listed historic place
    750 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Derech Emunah Viener House of worship
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two 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 24th 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.