Avenue V & Bragg Street

Avenue V and Bragg Street meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Nostrand development. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Nysarc-Brooklyn Blue Feather is 1,200 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue U/Bragg St, is 800 feet away for the B3, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

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Avenue V & Bragg Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue U/Bragg St, 800 feet away, for the B3.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/Bragg St B3 · Shelter
    800 feet
    B3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 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 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 3095 Avenue U Gas station
    1,190 feet
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.5 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2019.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2017

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
11 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1953.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Avenue V

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Bragg Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Bragg Street

  • Back-in parking only 8 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bambi Day Care II School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    490 feet
  2. A2z Happyland Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    990 feet
  3. P.S. 194 Raoul Wallenberg School
    1,040 feet
Show all 5
  1. Nysarc-Brooklyn Blue Feather School
    1,200 feet
  2. Big Dreams Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Herman Dolgon Playground
    990 feet

Health care

  1. Caring Hospice Services of New York Nursing home or hospice
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,130 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    820 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    870 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.