86th Street & 15th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 86th Street and 15th Avenue is in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, and is also named Giuseppe "Joe" Papandrea Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dyker Beach Park is 860 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 86 St/15 Av, is 130 feet away for the B1, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
86 St/15 Av · B1
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 listed historic place and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
86th Street & 15th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 86 St/15 Av, 130 feet away, for the B1.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 86 St/15 Av B1 · Shelter
    130 feet
    B1
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Bay 8th Street & Belt Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1414 86th Street Gas station
    680 feet
  2. 1763 86th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
47 and 50 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bath Beach
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Giuseppe "Joe" Papandrea Way, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Giuseppe "Joe" Papandrea Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 15th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 15th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of 86th Street

  • Metered parking 7 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of 86th Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306081 and 314474.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. The Purple Crayon Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    160 feet
  2. District 20 Pre-K Center at 21 Bay 11th Street Pre-K center
    800 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dyker Beach Park
    860 feet
  2. Dyker Playground
    920 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. New Utrecht Reformed Church Complex (Boundary Increase) Listed historic place
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    370 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    370 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 15th Avenue or 86th Street.

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