Ocean Avenue & Avenue K

Ocean Avenue and Avenue K 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. E Midwood Jewish Center is 400 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave J, is about eight minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, seven of them religious buildings. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1922 and 1929, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
10 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave J
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue K · B49, BM3
Within a walk
13 places
7 religious buildings, 2 older adult centers and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Avenue K Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Ave J Q
    0.4 miles
    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 Ocean Av/Avenue K, 90 feet away, for the B49 and BM3.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue K B49, BM3
    90 feet
    B49 BM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1981 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2017

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
31 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 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

North side of Avenue K

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

South side of Avenue K

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

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Fun Studios Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    660 feet
  2. Urban Dove Team Charter School
    740 feet
  3. Urban Dove Team Charter School V School
    740 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. East Midwood Jewish Center Listed historic place
    530 feet

Houses of worship

  1. E Midwood Jewish Center House of worship
    400 feet
  2. Bais Avrohom Dkrula Spinka House of worship
    860 feet
  3. Young Israel of Midwood House of worship
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1625 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    490 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1694 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    1,060 feet

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue K or Ocean Avenue.

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