Ocean Avenue & Avenue O

Ocean Avenue and Avenue O meet at a four-way crossing in Midwood, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Corporal Wiltshire Square is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about nine minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings, and two places to eat. About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1927 and 1963, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
17 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue O · B49
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 3 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Avenue O Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine 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 Ocean Av/Avenue O, 130 feet away, for the B49.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue O B49
    130 feet
    B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 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
    170 feet
  2. 1535 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, nine Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2022
  • Turn calming, July 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
48
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Midwood
Elevation
26 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,300 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 1927 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 69 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 47 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and August 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue O

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue O

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY 6AM-11PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • Ambulances only 1 sign AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8:30AM-5PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Promise World Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    260 feet
  2. Imaginarium Child Pre-K
    390 feet
  3. P.S. 197 - the Kings Highway Academy School
    1,110 feet
Show all 5
  1. Joseph S Gruss Yeshiva HS School
    1,290 feet
  2. Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Corporal Wiltshire Square
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kings Highway Library
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Domino Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Green Forest Supermarket
    0.4 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 two places to eat and ten food stores.

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 O or Ocean Avenue.

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