East 16th Street & Bay Court

East 16th Street and Bay Court meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Sixteen Lindens Triangle is 40 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 16 places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1932 and 1962, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
1,240 feet · 5 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Emmons Av/E 16 St · B4, B49
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 16th Street & Bay Court Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sheepshead Bay, 1,240 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    1,240 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 Emmons Av/E 16 St, 360 feet away, for the B4 and B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Emmons Av/E 16 St B4, B49
    360 feet
    B4 B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …
  2. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & East 14th Street at Belt Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3010 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2019.

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
7 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1932 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2020 and January 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bay Court

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Bay Court

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of East 16th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks 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
  • 1 park
  • 1 public space
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Butterfly Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    30 feet
  2. Nata's Kids Preschool
    830 feet
  3. I.S. 98 Bay Academy School
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sixteen Lindens Triangle
    40 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 1809 Emmons Avenue Public space
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    1,280 feet
  2. Cherry Hill Gourmet Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bay Court or East 16th Street.

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