Cropsey Avenue & Bay 41st Street

Cropsey Avenue and Bay 41st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Calvert Vaux Park is 1,170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cropsey Av/26 Av, is 200 feet away for the B6 and B82, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

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Cropsey Avenue & Bay 41st Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cropsey Av/26 Av, 200 feet away, for the B6 and B82.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cropsey Av/26 Av B6, B82
    200 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
    0.3 miles
  2. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.9 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2021.

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
9 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bay 41st Street

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

West side of Bay 41st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Cropsey Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Cropsey Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Calvert Vaux Park
    1,170 feet
  2. Calvert Vaux Park Playground
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Shore Parkway Jewish Center House of worship
    480 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and one food store.

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 11 corners 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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.