Dover Street & Hampton Avenue

Dover Street and Hampton Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Temple Beth El Manhattanbeach is 970 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Oriental Blvd/Dover St, is 940 feet away for the B1 and B49, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, five of them religious buildings.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
Oriental Blvd/Dover St · B1, B49
Within a walk
7 places
5 religious buildings and 2 day care or pre-K sites, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Dover Street & Hampton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Oriental Blvd/Dover St, 940 feet away, for the B1 and B49.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Oriental Blvd/Dover St B1, B49
    940 feet
    B1 B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …
  2. B49 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & East 14th Street at Belt Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3046 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 2750 East 12th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 74 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and November 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Dover Street

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-2PM

West side of Dover Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-2PM

North side of Hampton Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-2PM

South side of Hampton Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-2PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. A2z Happyland Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
  2. Little Scholars Learning Center III Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Beth El Manhattanbeach House of worship
    970 feet
  2. Sephardic Temple Torah Israel House of worship
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Hill Gourmet Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Dover Street or Hampton Avenue.

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