Avenue X & Brown Street

Avenue X 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, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Shore Park Jewish Center is 750 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue X/Batchelder St, is 230 feet away for the BM3, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them schools, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Avenue X/Batchelder St · BM3
Within a walk
15 places
6 schools, 2 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue X & Brown Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue X/Batchelder St, 230 feet away, for the BM3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue X/Batchelder St BM3
    230 feet
    BM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. BM3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Avenue X.

  • 26 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

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

  1. 2402 Knapp Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes 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 May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
46 and 48 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
10 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three 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 1950 and 1952.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Avenue X

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Brown Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 320687.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Sheepshead Bay Child care
    260 feet
  2. J.H.S. 014 Shell Bank School
    330 feet
  3. Origins High School
    790 feet
Show all 7
  1. Professional Pathways High School
    790 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Sheepshead Bay School
    790 feet
  3. United Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science LLL School
    790 feet
  4. P.S. K811 Connie Lekas School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Sunlight Garden - Sheepshead Nostrand Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    110 feet
  2. Playground 286 Playground
    830 feet
  3. Yak Playground
    980 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kings Bay Library
    960 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Shore Park Jewish Center House of worship
    750 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Sheepshead Bay Community Center
    750 feet
  2. Older adult center at 3643 Nostrand Avenue Older adult center
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ALDI Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    810 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Nostrand Plaza Shopping center
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and 12 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:

See every intersection along Avenue X or Brown Street.

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