Ocean Parkway & Avenue O

Ocean Parkway and Avenue O meet at a four-way crossing in Mapleton-Midwood (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 36 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 8,884 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Yeshiva of Brooklyn is 540 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave P, is about nine minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, six of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
31 hurt
36 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave P
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,170 feet
Avenue N/Ocean Pkwy · B9
Within a walk
9 places
6 religious buildings, 1 listed historic place and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Parkway & Avenue O Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave P, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Ave P F
    0.5 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave N F
    0.5 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Tree Canopy” (2018) by Jackie Battenfield at the Ave P station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue N/Ocean Pkwy, 1,170 feet away, for the B9.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue N/Ocean Pkwy B9
    1,170 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 6th Street, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1780 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 36 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 31 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2022
  • Turn calming, July 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 8,884 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 74th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 5,329 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on Ocean Parkway6,3343,572
Southbound on Ocean Parkway2,5051,718
Westbound on Avenue O4539
Total8,8845,329

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
44
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Mapleton-Midwood (West)
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to six travel lanes

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 1927 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 107 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 78 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue O

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue O

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 26 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva of Brooklyn School
    540 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Colonel David Marcus Playground
    590 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ocean Parkway Listed historic place
    590 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Moisha's Kosher Discount Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue O or Ocean Parkway.

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