Kings Highway & East 29th Street

Kings Highway and East 29th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kingsway Jewish Center is 180 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kings Hwy/Nostrand Av, is 380 feet away for the B7, B82 and B82 SBS, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Kings Hwy/Nostrand Av · B7, B82, B82 SBS
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kings Highway & East 29th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/Nostrand Av, 380 feet away, for the B7, B82 and B82 SBS.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/Nostrand Av B7, B82, B82 SBS
    380 feet
    B7 B82 B82 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. B7 …
  2. B82 …
  3. B82 SBS …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2791 Nostrand Avenue Gas station
    690 feet
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1,230 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
61 and 70 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 9 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 29th Street

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

West side of East 29th Street

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

North side of Kings Highway

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Kings Highway

  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 323658.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Derech Hatorah School
    230 feet
  2. Butterfly Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  3. The Joan Snow Pre-K Center at 1340 East 29th Street Pre-K center
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pfc Norton Playground
    370 feet

Health care

  1. Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kingsway Jewish Center Listed historic place
    180 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 29th Street or Kings Highway.

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