Dictum Court & Florence Avenue

Dictum Court and Florence Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. St James Evangelical Lutheran Church is 490 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Gerritsen Av/Gotham Av, is 630 feet away for the B31 and BM4. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and three places to eat. About 500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1930, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Gerritsen Av/Gotham Av · B31, BM4
Within a walk
3 places
1 library, 1 park and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dictum Court & Florence Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gerritsen Av/Gotham Av, 630 feet away, for the B31 and BM4.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gerritsen Av/Gotham Av B31, BM4
    630 feet
    B31 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B31 …
  2. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2402 Knapp Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
46
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1930.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Dictum Court

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of Florence Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Marine Park
    650 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gerritsen Beach Library
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St James Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    490 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three 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 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dictum Court or Florence Avenue.

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