Ocean Parkway & Elmwood Avenue

Ocean Parkway and Elmwood Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 8,646 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Lubavitcher High School is 190 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave I, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them schools, and one place to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1937 and 1963, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave I
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
500 feet
Avenue I/Ocean Pkwy · B11
Within a walk
12 places
6 schools, 3 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Parkway & Elmwood Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Ave I F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 18 Av F
    0.4 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Where the Sky Begins” (2018) by Kambui Olujimi at the Ave I station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue I/Ocean Pkwy, 500 feet away, for the B11.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue I/Ocean Pkwy B11
    500 feet
    B11

Next buses at this stop

  1. B11 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1248 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 800 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.3 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2022

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 8,646 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 79th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 5,819 more were issued.

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
40
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
45 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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 1937 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 90 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Elmwood Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Elmwood Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. United Lubavitcher Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    120 feet
  2. Lubavitcher High School
    190 feet
  3. Lubavitcher School Chabad School
    190 feet
Show all 8
  1. Mevakshai Torah School
    190 feet
  2. Mesivta Sholom Schachna School
    690 feet
  3. Nesivos Bais Yaakov School
    1,260 feet
  4. Cheder (The) School
    1,270 feet
  5. The Cheder School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 870 Ocean Parkway Older adult center
    220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ShopRite Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Elmwood Avenue 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.