Ocean Parkway & Cortelyou Road

Ocean Parkway and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 59 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2026, 1,918 red-light camera tickets were recorded here through July 26. Mosdos Satmar BP is 1,100 feet away. The nearest subway, Ditmas Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and three places to eat.

Safety record
60 hurt
59 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ditmas Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Coney Island Av/Cortelyou Rd · B68
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 3 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Parkway & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ditmas Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Ditmas Av F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Inheritance: In Memory of American Glass” (2016) by Cara Lynch at the Ditmas Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Cortelyou Rd, 0.3 miles away, for the B68.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Cortelyou Rd B68
    0.3 miles
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cortelyou Rd & E 8 St 16 docks in all
    720 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1 Cortelyou Road Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 59 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 60 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 9 of those hurt, on foot
  • 9 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 1,918 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket2026 so far
Southbound on Ocean Parkway1,884
Eastbound on Cortelyou Road34
Total1,918

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
39
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to seven travel lanes

Homes

About 2,900 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 1925 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 100 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Princeton' American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 90 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and May 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Shira's Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    410 feet
  2. J.H.S. 062 Ditmas School
    620 feet
  3. Mosdos Satmar BP School
    1,100 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bonim Lamokom School
    1,290 feet
  2. Torah Vodaath High School
    1,290 feet

Health care

  1. Palm Gardens Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,270 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cortelyou Road or Ocean Parkway.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, 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.