Ocean Avenue & Avenue J

Ocean Avenue and Avenue J meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. In 2025, 1,861 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Masores Bais Yaakov Elementary is 1,010 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave J, is about five minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and two places to eat.

Safety record
24 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave J
1,180 feet · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Avenue J/Ocean Av · B6, B11
Within a walk
11 places
7 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Avenue J Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave J, 1,180 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Ave J Q
    1,180 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bird Laid Bare” (2011) by Rita MacDonald at the Ave J station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue J/Ocean Av, 50 feet away, for the B6 and B11.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue J/Ocean Av B6, B11 · Shelter
    50 feet
    B6 B11
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …
  2. B11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1248 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 24 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,861 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 455th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 922 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
44 and 45 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,700 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 1922 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the hardy rubber tree and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue J

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue J

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY 6AM-11PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1800 and 1803.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 college

Schools and child care

  1. Masores Bais Yaakov Elementary School
    1,010 feet
  2. Masores Bais Yaakov High School
    1,010 feet
  3. Yeshiva of Flatbush-Joel Braverman H School
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Touro University - Flatbush College
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Avenue J House of worship
    670 feet
  2. E Midwood Jewish Center House of worship
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue J or Ocean Avenue.

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