East 13th Street & Margaret Court

East 13th Street and Margaret Court 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. Sheepshead Bay Library is 900 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about four minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and 16 places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1952 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
970 feet · 4 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
Avenue Z/E 13 St · B36
Within a walk
3 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 library and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 13th Street & Margaret Court Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sheepshead Bay, 970 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    970 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Postcards from Sheepshead Bay” (1998) by Deborah Goletz at the Sheepshead Bay station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue Z/E 13 St, 520 feet away, for the B36.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue Z/E 13 St B36
    520 feet
    B36

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 13th Street at Belt Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2624 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.3 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    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
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
9 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1952 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Lighthouse Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Homecrest Playground
    1,020 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sheepshead Bay Library
    900 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    850 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    870 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    740 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 13th Street.

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