Atlantic Avenue & Sheridan Avenue

Atlantic Avenue and Sheridan Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York-City Line, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. East New York Baptist Church is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, Crescent St, is about seven minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, four of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat. About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1910 and 1920, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Crescent St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Atlantic Av/Sheridan Av · Q24
Within a walk
5 places
4 religious buildings and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Sheridan Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Crescent St J, Z
    0.3 miles
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Grant Av A
    0.5 miles
    A

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wheel of Bloom-Soak up the Sun” (2007) by Jung Hyang Kim at the Crescent St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Sheridan Av, 130 feet away, for the Q24.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Sheridan Av Q24
    130 feet
    Q24

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 81-02 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive 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 foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11208
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York-City Line
Elevation
30 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 1910 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Nichols Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Nichols Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of Sheridan Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Sheridan Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Cypress Hills Ascend Charter School
    990 feet

Houses of worship

  1. East New York Baptist Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Golden Farms Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,110 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 12 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, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue, Nichols Avenue or Sheridan Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.