Avenue Y & Bragg Street

Avenue Y and Bragg Street meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Origins High School is 1,050 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Batchelder St/Avenue Z, is 0.3 miles away for the BM3, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them schools, and one place to eat.

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Avenue Y & Bragg Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Batchelder St/Avenue Z, 0.3 miles away, for the BM3.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Batchelder St/Avenue Z BM3
    0.3 miles
    BM3

Next buses at this stop

  1. BM3 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2472 Knapp Street Gas station
    730 feet
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes 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 December 2025.

About this corner

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1955 and 1960.

Trees

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Origins High School
    1,050 feet
  2. Professional Pathways High School
    1,050 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Sheepshead Bay School
    1,050 feet
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  1. United Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science LLL School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Yak Playground
    330 feet
  2. Playground 286 Playground
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Shore Park Jewish Center House of worship
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ALDI Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Nostrand Plaza Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

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