Avenue V & Brown Street

Avenue V and Brown Street meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Sheepshead Bay development. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Young Israel of Beford Bay is 710 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Nostrand Av/Avenue V, is 560 feet away for the B36 and B44, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Nostrand Av/Avenue V · B36, B44
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue V & Brown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Avenue V, 560 feet away, for the B36 and B44.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …
  2. B44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 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
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2022.

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
12 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Avenue V

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Brown Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Bambi Day Care III School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    710 feet
  2. Kings Bay Y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  3. Congregation Lev Bais Yaakov School
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. Thinkschool School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Herman Dolgon Playground
    60 feet

Health care

  1. The Chateau at Brooklyn Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    870 feet

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Sheepshead Bay Community center
    590 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,280 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change 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 Brown Street.

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