Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach wraps around the bay in southern Brooklyn, from the Emmons Avenue piers, where boats head out on fishing trips, to Manhattan Beach on the ocean and the Gerritsen Beach peninsula beside Plumb Beach Channel.

  • 2.27 square miles
  • 69,084 residents, 2020 Census
  • 461 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 13 bus routes

The bay is usually said to be named for the sheepshead, a fish once abundant in these waters, and the 1934 Lundy Brothers Restaurant building on Emmons Avenue, in Spanish Colonial Revival style, is a city landmark. Austin Corbin built the Manhattan Beach Hotel in 1877, Kingsborough Community College now fills Manhattan Beach's eastern tip, and Gerritsen Beach began in 1920 as a summer resort.

Sources: Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); F.W.I.L. Lundy Brothers Restaurant Building (LP-1706) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn (Wikipedia).

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Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach borders five areas, and Shore Parkway holds more of its corners than any other street, 41 of 461.

Street map of Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, outlined among Marine Park-Plumb Island, Madison, Brighton Beach and Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, with its two subway stations and Manhattan Beach Park.MadisonMarine Park-Plumb IslandBrighton BeachGravesend (East)-HomecrestGravesend (South)
  • Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
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  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Neck Rd lines Q
  • Sheepshead Bay lines B Q accessible

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 13 routes stop in or at the edge of Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 11 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B1
  • B3
  • B4
  • B31
  • B36
  • B44
  • B44-SBS
  • B49
  • B68
  • B102
  • T464

Express bus routes

  • BM3
  • BM4

Safety record

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

  • 1,987 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.3 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 154 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 83 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
67
Accessible pedestrian signals
17
Turn calming
10
Enhanced crossings
9
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 72,592 school-zone speed camera tickets at 31 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Shore Parkway & Knapp Street, 20,084

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 69,084 residents in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, about 30,400 per square mile.

  • 28,707 homes, 2020 Census
  • 979 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 8,662 residential lots hold buildings from 1935 or earlier, and 52% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Nostrand and Sheepshead Bay developments lie wholly or partly within Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
52.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Manhattan Beach Park (40 acres), Bill Brown Playground (3.3 acres) and Homecrest Playground (2.2 acres)
Designated landmark
The F.W.I.L. Lundy Brothers Restaurant Building

Streets and trees

Trees
6,526 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Shore Parkway, with 41 of the area's 461
Height above sea level
From 3 feet at Stanton Road & Losee Terrace to 25 feet at Shore Parkway & Knapp Street
Honorary street names
15 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 22 schools and three libraries in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach.

Public schools
11
Charter and private schools
11
Libraries
Gerritsen Beach Library, Kings Bay Library and Sheepshead Bay Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach: Design Team Project (1994) and Wave Wall in Green (1996).

  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 546 major felonies at places in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach

  • 604 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,935 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, the NYPD recorded another 71 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.9 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach.

Police precinct
61st
Major felonies recorded at places in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 263 major felonies at places in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, against 265 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.