Brighton Beach Avenue & Brighton 2nd Street

Brighton Beach Avenue and Brighton 2nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Sofia Vinokurov & Mark Rakhman Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brighton Beach Library is 600 feet away. The nearest subway, Ocean Pkwy, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ocean Pkwy
730 feet · 3 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Brighton Beach Av/Brighton 1 Pl · B1, B68
Within a walk
11 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brighton Beach Avenue & Brighton 2nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ocean Pkwy, 730 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Pkwy Q
    730 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Brighton Beach B, Q
    870 feet
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Coney Island Reliefs” (2010) by Deborah Masters at the Ocean Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brighton Beach Av/Brighton 1 Pl, 150 feet away, for the B1 and B68.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brighton Beach Av/Brighton 1 Pl B1, B68
    150 feet
    B1 B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …
  2. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

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

  1. 294 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 532 Neptune Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
48
Police precinct
60
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brighton Beach

This corner is also named Sofia Vinokurov & Mark Rakhman Place, a co-naming enacted on July 29, 2018 (Local Law 139 of 2018).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1927 and 1954.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Skyline' thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sofia Vinokurov & Mark Rakhman Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 8 active meters
  • 6 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2023 and February 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brighton 2nd Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Brighton 2nd Street

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of Brighton Beach Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • Time-limited parking 1 sign 48 HOUR PARKING DETACHED TRAILERS
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING SATURDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

South side of Brighton Beach Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 303805, 307049, 308829, 311453, 312190 and 314702.

Landmarks and historic districts

Three buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 2001 and 2013.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 library
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Buratino International Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet
  2. M.S. Sunshine Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet
  3. International Development Institute, Trade or language school
    1,290 feet
Show all 4
  1. Ip Training Trade or language school
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brighton Playground
    510 feet
  2. Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk Park
    710 feet
  3. Asser Levy Park
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brighton Beach Library
    600 feet
  2. Ocean Parkway Station (Dual System BRT) Listed historic place
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ocean View Jewish Center House of worship
    480 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    70 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    610 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 28 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 23 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brighton 2nd Street or Brighton Beach Avenue.

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