East 17th Street & Avenue Y

East 17th Street and Avenue Y meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 705 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Bay Post Office is 1,110 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about six minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
950 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue Y · B49
Within a walk
4 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 post office and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 17th Street & Avenue Y Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sheepshead Bay, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    0.3 miles
    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 Ocean Av/Avenue Y, 950 feet away, for the B49.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue Y B49 · Shelter
    950 feet
    B49
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 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. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 32 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 705 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 977th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 129 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
8 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 1930 and 1957.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue Y

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • 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 17th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 17th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 320250 and 320251.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Bay Post Office
    1,110 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    410 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 nine places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue Y or East 17th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.