Cropsey Avenue & Bay 32nd Street

Cropsey Avenue and Bay 32nd Street meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. King David Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation is 140 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cropsey Av/23 Av, is 110 feet away for the B82, X28 and X38, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them nursing homes or hospices, and six places to eat.

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Cropsey Avenue & Bay 32nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cropsey Av/23 Av, 110 feet away, for the B82, X28 and X38.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cropsey Av/23 Av B82, X28, X38
    110 feet
    B82 X28 X38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …
  2. X28 …
  3. X38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Cropsey Avenue.

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

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

  1. 2225 Bath Avenue Gas station
    1,040 feet
  2. 8949 Bay Parkway Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.3 miles

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2016
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2024
  • Turn calming, August 2025

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)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 107 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Kentucky coffeetree and the hedge maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

East side of Bay 32nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Bay 32nd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Cropsey Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. HLA2 School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    170 feet
  2. Hebrew Language Academy Charter School 2 School
    430 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bensonhurst Park
    590 feet
  2. Bensonhurst Park Playground
    670 feet

Health care

  1. King David Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    140 feet
  2. Haym Solomon Home for the Aged Nursing home or hospice
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Ceasar's Bay Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk 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, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.