Bath Beach

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Bath Beach sits on Gravesend Bay between 86th Street and the shore, across 14th Avenue from Dyker Beach Park.

  • 0.74 square miles
  • 33,070 residents, 2020 Census
  • 120 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 8 bus routes

Named for the English spa town of Bath, it was developed as a seaside getaway for well-off families, and a steam railroad link to Brooklyn's horsecar lines at the end of 1863 helped it grow. In the mid-20th century the Shore Parkway was built over the beach, and a promenade was added so residents could reach the seawall. Its parks include Bensonhurst Park, on the bay at Cropsey Avenue, which the city bought in 1895.

Sources: Bath Beach, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Bensonhurst Park History (NYC Parks).

Map

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Bath Beach borders five areas, and Bath Avenue and Cropsey Avenue hold more of its corners than any other street, 25 each of 120.

Street map of Bath Beach, Brooklyn, outlined among Bensonhurst, Dyker Beach Park, Gravesend (West) and Dyker Heights, with its one subway station and Bensonhurst Park.Dyker HeightsBensonhurstGravesend (West)Fort HamiltonDyker Beach Park
  • Bath Beach
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 18 Av lines D

Getting around

One subway station and buses on eight routes stop in or at the edge of Bath Beach.

  • 1 subway station
  • 6 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B1
  • B6
  • B8
  • B64
  • B82
  • B82-SBS

Express bus routes

  • X28
  • X38

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 793 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 6.6 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 13 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 31 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
21
Accessible pedestrian signals
13
Turn calming
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 1,889 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 4,141 school-zone speed camera tickets at seven corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Cropsey Avenue & 21st Avenue, 1,889
Most speed tickets
86th Street & Bay 14th Street, 1,192

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 33,070 residents in Bath Beach, about 44,700 per square mile.

  • 12,358 homes, 2020 Census
  • 305 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,652 residential lots hold buildings from 1935 or earlier, and 54% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
21.2 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Bensonhurst Park (17.3 acres), Bath Beach Park (2.9 acres) and Benson Playground (0.9 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,001 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Japanese zelkova
Street with the most corners
Bath Avenue, with 25 of the area's 120
Height above sea level
From 11 feet at Shore Parkway & 20th Avenue to 32 feet at 86th Street & Bay 16th Street
Honorary street names
9 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists five schools and one library in Bath Beach.

Public schools
4
Charter or private school
1
Library
New Utrecht Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 206 major felonies at places in Bath Beach.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Bath Beach

  • 202 major felonies in 2024
  • 744 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Bath Beach, the NYPD recorded another 78 major felonies.

Map of Bath Beach: 9 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Bath Beach, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Bath Beach, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Bath Beach are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Bath Beach and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
62nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Bath Beach, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 91 major felonies at places in Bath Beach, against 106 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.