Avenue Z & Brown Street
Avenue Z and Brown Street meet at a three-way junction 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. Sheepshead Playground is 590 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Batchelder St/Avenue Z, is 330 feet away for the BM3, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them playgrounds, and four places to eat.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Batchelder St/Avenue Z, 330 feet away, for the BM3.
- 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Batchelder St/Avenue Z BM3330 feetBM3
Next buses at this stop
- BM3 …
Cycling
- 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.
- 3743 Nostrand Avenue Gas station0.3 miles
- 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers1 mile
- 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars2.1 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 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 2026.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11235
- Community board
- Brooklyn Community Board 15
- City Council district
- 48
- 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 1958 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 listedSeven public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 3 playgrounds
- 2 schools
- 1 day care or pre-K site
- 1 religious building
Schools and child care
- Brain Fitness Preschool, ages 2 to 5640 feet
- P.S. K811 Connie Lekas School940 feet
- P.S. 052 Sheepshead Bay School1,300 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Playground 286 Playground300 feet
- Sheepshead Playground590 feet
- Yak Playground1,100 feet
Houses of worship
- Shore Park Jewish Center House of worship1,210 feet
Supermarkets
- ALDI Supermarket1,140 feet
Other stores
- Family Dollar Store0.4 miles
Shopping centers
- Nostrand Plaza Shopping center310 feet
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and six food stores.
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:
- Avenue Z & Batchelder Street 260 feet
- Avenue Z & Haring Street 260 feet
- Avenue Z & Ford Street 520 feet
- Nostrand Avenue & Avenue Z 530 feet
- Ford Street & Kouwenhoven Lane 630 feet
- Avenue Z & Coyle Street 790 feet
- East 29th Street & Avenue Z 820 feet
- Brown Street & Voorhies Avenue 830 feet
See every intersection along Avenue Z or Brown Street.