Cropsey Avenue & 26th Avenue

Cropsey Avenue and 26th Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (South), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Rebitzen Rita Horowitz Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Shore Parkway Jewish Center is 320 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cropsey Av/26 Av, is 130 feet away for the B6 and B82, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Cropsey Av/26 Av · B6, B82
Within a walk
6 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cropsey Avenue & 26th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cropsey Av/26 Av, 130 feet away, for the B6 and B82.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cropsey Av/26 Av B6, B82
    130 feet
    B6 B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …
  2. B82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

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

  1. 2471 Cropsey Avenue Gas station
    1,060 feet
  2. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 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 May 2025.

About this corner

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

This corner is also named Rebitzen Rita Horowitz Way, a co-naming enacted on December 20, 2010 (Local Law 3 of 2011).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1960 and 1967.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rebitzen Rita Horowitz Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and March 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 26th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 26th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Cropsey Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Cropsey Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. National Association of Family Development Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    320 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Calvert Vaux Park
    890 feet
  2. Calvert Vaux Park Playground
    990 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ulmer Park Library
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Shore Parkway Jewish Center House of worship
    320 feet

Other stores

  1. BJ's Wholesale Club Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Ceasar's Bay Shopping center
    0.5 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 subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 26th Avenue or Cropsey Avenue.

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