East 19th Street & Avenue Y

East 19th Street and Avenue Y meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Marks RC Church is 960 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about eight minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue Y · B49
Within a walk
8 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 post offices and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 19th Street & Avenue Y Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sheepshead Bay, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    0.4 miles
    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 Ocean Av/Avenue Y, 410 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 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, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3010 Ocean Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
8 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

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 August 2017 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue Y

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Avenue Y

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

East side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 post offices
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Magic Kingdom of Sheepshead Bay Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    440 feet
  2. P.S. 254 Dag Hammarskjold School
    570 feet
  3. St Mark Catholic Academy School
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bright Start PT & Pta Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks RC Church House of worship
    960 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Homecrest Post Office
    1,030 feet
  2. Bay Post Office
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and nine 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 19th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.