Bath Avenue & 26th Avenue

Bath Avenue and 26th Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Ulmer Park Library is 140 feet away, and Most Precious Blood Church is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay 50 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and three places to eat. About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1945 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
2 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay 50 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
830 feet
Bath Av/25 Av · B64
Within a walk
15 places
7 religious buildings, 5 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bath Avenue & 26th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay 50 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Bay 50 St D
    0.4 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 25 Av D
    0.4 miles
    D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bath Av/25 Av, 830 feet away, for the B64.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bath Av/25 Av B64
    830 feet
    B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Bath Avenue.

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2471 Cropsey Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 8949 Bay Parkway Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
60 and 62 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1945 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and October 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 26th Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 26th Avenue

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

North side of Bath Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Bath Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. National Association of Family Development Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
  2. High School of Sports Management School
    1,040 feet
  3. International High School at Lafayette School
    1,040 feet
Show all 6
  1. Kingsborough Early College School
    1,040 feet
  2. Leaders High School
    1,040 feet
  3. Life Academy High School for Business and Technology School
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lafayette Playground
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulmer Park Library
    140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Shore Parkway Jewish Center House of worship
    970 feet
  2. Most Precious Blood Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. V&W Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 26th Avenue or Bath Avenue.

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