Bay 10th Street & Independence Avenue

Bay 10th Street and Independence Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Dyker Beach Park is 780 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cropsey Av/15 Av, is 1,180 feet away for the B8, X28 and X38, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1955, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Bay 10th Street & Independence Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cropsey Av/15 Av, 1,180 feet away, for the B8, X28 and X38.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cropsey Av/15 Av B8, X28, X38
    1,180 feet
    B8 X28 X38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …
  2. X28 …
  3. X38 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Bay 8th Street & Belt Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1601 86th Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 1763 86th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    1 mile

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2014.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
50
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bath Beach
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2014 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bay 10th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Bay 10th Street

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

North side of Independence Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dyker Beach Park
    780 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 Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.