Belt Parkway & East 12th Street

Belt Parkway and East 12th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Engine 246/Ladder 169 firehouse is 690 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about four minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and four places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1955 and 1962, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
890 feet
Voorhies Av/E 14 St · B4, B49
Within a walk
4 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 fire station and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Belt Parkway & East 12th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sheepshead Bay, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    1,000 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Postcards from Sheepshead Bay” (1998) by Deborah Goletz at the Sheepshead Bay station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Voorhies Av/E 14 St, 890 feet away, for the B4 and B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Voorhies Av/E 14 St B4, B49
    890 feet
    B4 B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …
  2. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 840 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 3003 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2750 East 12th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 1955 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 20 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Lighthouse Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Homecrest Playground
    140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sheepshead Bay Library
    1,290 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 246/Ladder 169 Fire station
    690 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Belt Parkway or East 12th Street.

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