Avenue Z & Coyle Street

Avenue Z and Coyle Street meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The site-specific installation “Wave Wall in Green” is 760 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Batchelder St/Avenue Z, is 560 feet away for the BM3, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them playgrounds.

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Avenue Z & Coyle Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Batchelder St/Avenue Z, 560 feet away, for the BM3.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Batchelder St/Avenue Z BM3
    560 feet
    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
    0.3 miles
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2024.

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

Homes

About 1,300 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

Fifteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue Z

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue Z

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Coyle Street

  • Back-in parking only 7 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Coyle Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

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
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Beginnings in Brooklyn Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Yak Playground
    840 feet
  2. Playground 286 Playground
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ALDI Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Nostrand Plaza Shopping center
    1,100 feet

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 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.