Avenue V & Batchelder Street

Avenue V and Batchelder Street meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Sheepshead Bay development. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 79 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. The Chateau at Brooklyn Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is 1,130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Nostrand Av/Avenue V, is 820 feet away for the B36 and B44. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places and ten places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
820 feet
Nostrand Av/Avenue V · B36, B44
Within a walk
9 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 2 nursing homes or hospices and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue V & Batchelder Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Avenue V, 820 feet away, for the B36 and B44.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Avenue V B36, B44 · Shelter
    820 feet
    B36 B44
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …
  2. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3095 Avenue U Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 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 September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 79 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,794th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 37 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
46
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1949 and 1950.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Sheepshead Bay development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue V

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue V

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Batchelder Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Batchelder Street

  • Back-in parking only 8 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 1 community center
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Bambi Day Care III School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    830 feet
  2. Kings Bay Y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  3. Big Dreams Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,090 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bambi Day Care II School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Herman Dolgon Playground
    190 feet

Health care

  1. The Chateau at Brooklyn Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,130 feet
  2. Caring Hospice Services of New York Nursing home or hospice
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Beford Bay House of worship
    830 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Sheepshead Bay Community center
    850 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,020 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and four 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue V or Batchelder Street.

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