Avenue V & Brigham Street

Avenue V and Brigham Street meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 194 Raoul Wallenberg is 770 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Gerritsen Av/Avenue V, is 650 feet away for the B31 and BM4, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and eight places to eat.

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Avenue V & Brigham Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gerritsen Av/Avenue V, 650 feet away, for the B31 and BM4.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gerritsen Av/Avenue V B31, BM4 · Shelter
    650 feet
    B31 BM4
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B31 …
  2. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 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. 3094 Avenue U Gas station
    1,150 feet
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.5 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2023.

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
9 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and November 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Avenue V

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Brigham Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Bambi Day Care II School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  2. P.S. 194 Raoul Wallenberg School
    770 feet
  3. Nysarc-Brooklyn Blue Feather School
    940 feet
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  1. A2z Happyland Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marine Park
    1,180 feet
  2. Herman Dolgon Playground
    1,250 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 321 Fire station
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    860 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    960 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,140 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight 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, seven 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.