East 16th Street & Avenue Y

East 16th Street and Avenue Y meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about five minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
1,290 feet · 5 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
Avenue Z/E 15 St · B4, B36, B49
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 16th Street & Avenue Y Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sheepshead Bay, 1,290 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    1,290 feet
    B Q

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Neck Rd Q
    0.4 miles
    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 15 St, 860 feet away, for the B4, B36 and B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue Z/E 15 St B4, B36, B49
    860 feet
    B4 B36 B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …
  2. B36 …
  3. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 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. 3010 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.4 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2017

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 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1960.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and October 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue Y

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

South side of Avenue Y

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

East side of East 16th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 16th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Magic Kingdom of Sheepshead Bay Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  2. P.S. 254 Dag Hammarskjold School
    850 feet
  3. Bright Start PT & Pta Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Baptist Church of Sheepshead Bay House of worship
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,080 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,150 feet
  3. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    680 feet
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue Y or East 16th Street.

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