Cropsey Avenue & Bay 16th Street

Cropsey Avenue and Bay 16th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bath Beach Park is 500 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cropsey Av/17 Av, is 180 feet away for the B8, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

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Cropsey Avenue & Bay 16th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cropsey Av/17 Av, 180 feet away, for the B8.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cropsey Av/17 Av B8
    180 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bay 16th Street.

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Bay 8th Street & Belt Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1907 Cropsey Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1763 86th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers and four fast chargers
    0.5 miles

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
47
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bath Beach
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bay 16th Street

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

West side of Bay 16th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Cropsey Avenue

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

South side of Cropsey Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. New Sunflower Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    810 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bath Beach Park
    500 feet
  2. Bath Beach Park Playground
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,060 feet
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and nine 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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

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