Bath Avenue & Bay 20th Street

Bath Avenue and Bay 20th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Francesco LoPresti Street by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Benson Playground is 650 feet away. The nearest subway, 18 Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
18 Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Bath Av/Bay 20 St · B64
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bath Avenue & Bay 20th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 18 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 18 Av D
    0.4 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Southbound
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 20 Av D
    0.5 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bensonhurst Gardens” (2012) by Francesco Simeti at the 18 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bath Av/Bay 20 St, 60 feet away, for the B64.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bath Av/Bay 20 St B64
    60 feet
    B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bath Avenue.

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

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

  1. 1907 Cropsey Avenue Gas station
    830 feet
  2. 1763 86th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
38 and 47 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bath Beach
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Francesco LoPresti Street (Local Law 81 of 2022, enacted on August 14, 2022) and Rachel “Frenchie” Paliseno Way (Local Law 43 of 2005, enacted on May 9, 2005).

The streets

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

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 1915 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the dawn redwood.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bath Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Bath Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 7:30AM-8AM

East side of Bay 20th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Bay 20th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Heartshare Human Services of New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    210 feet
  2. Heartshare Education Center School
    310 feet
  3. Shostakovich Music, Art and Sport School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    670 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 200 Benson School
    1,060 feet
  2. New Sunflower Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Benson Playground
    650 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Bath Beach Post Office
    730 feet

Fire and police

  1. 62nd Precinct Police station
    550 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    600 feet
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bath Avenue or Bay 20th Street.

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