Avenue Y & Brigham Street

Avenue Y and Brigham Street meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Professional Pathways High School is 1,310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Batchelder St/Avenue Z, is 0.4 miles away for the BM3, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, four of them schools, and one place to eat.

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Avenue Y & Brigham Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Batchelder St/Avenue Z, 0.4 miles away, for the BM3.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Batchelder St/Avenue Z BM3
    0.4 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, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2472 Knapp Street Gas station
    480 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 four 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 April 2023.

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 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Coney Island Water Pollution Control Plant.

  1. Wave Wall in Green Site-specific installation by Ned Smyth, 1996
    810 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Origins High School
    1,310 feet
  2. Professional Pathways High School
    1,310 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Sheepshead Bay School
    1,310 feet
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  1. United Charter High School for Advanced Math and Science LLL School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Yak Playground
    590 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ALDI Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.5 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, four 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.