Avenue P & Bay Parkway

Avenue P and Bay Parkway meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Frank Pershep Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Seth Low Playground/ Bealin Square is 170 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Pkwy, is about nine minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them schools.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Pkwy
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
Bay Pkwy/77 St · B6
Within a walk
14 places
6 schools, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue P & Bay Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Pkwy, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Pkwy N
    0.5 miles
    N

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. N …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. N …

Also within a walk

  1. Bay Pkwy D
    0.5 miles
    D
  2. Kings Hwy N
    0.5 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “People's Instinctive Travels: Homage to the Tribe” (2019) by Eamon Ore-Giron at the Bay Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Pkwy/77 St, 170 feet away, for the B6.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Pkwy/77 St B6
    170 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1626 Stillwell Avenue Gas station
    730 feet
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2010

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Frank Pershep Way, a co-naming enacted on October 20, 2003 (Local Law 62 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1953.

Since 2014 at least 19 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Frank Pershep Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and November 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue P

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue P

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Bay Parkway

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Elite Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    310 feet
  2. Magen David Yeshivah High School
    510 feet
  3. Brooklyn School of Inquiry School
    590 feet
Show all 8
  1. The Academy of Talented Scholars School
    590 feet
  2. Gold Material BK Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
  3. Yeshiva Ohel Moshe School
    890 feet
  4. Success Academy Charter School - Bensonhurst School
    1,080 feet
  5. I.S. 096 Seth Low School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Seth Low Playground/ Bealin Square Park
    170 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Highlawn Library
    1,090 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Community center · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    360 feet
  2. Older adult center at 7802 Bay Parkway Older adult center
    490 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue P or Bay Parkway.

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