Coney Island Avenue & Montauk Court

Coney Island Avenue and Montauk Court meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 209 Margaret Mead is 720 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about nine minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, six of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

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Coney Island Avenue & Montauk Court Nearby corners, linked

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    0.4 miles
    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 Coney Island Av/Avenue Z, 500 feet away, for the B68.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Avenue Z B68 · Shelter
    500 feet
    B68
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 6th Street, 1,130 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 3003 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.4 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
48
Police precinct
60 and 61 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (South)
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1956.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

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

West side of Coney Island Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-10PM ALL DAYS
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Montauk Court

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

South side of Montauk Court

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 209 Margaret Mead School
    720 feet
  2. Mommy Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    910 feet
  3. Yeshivat Lev Torah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    950 feet
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  1. Lighthouse Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
  2. Bet Yaakov Ohr Sarah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,040 feet
  3. Shirat Rachel Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,040 feet
  4. Five Stars Childcare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Sheepshead Bay House of worship
    1,270 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and eight 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 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, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.