East 21st Street & Avenue Y

East 21st Street and Avenue Y meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bill Brown Playground is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ocean Av/Avenue Y, is 370 feet away for the B49, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue Y · B49
Within a walk
7 places
3 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 21st Street & Avenue Y Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Avenue Y, 370 feet away, for the B49.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 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, 0.7 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
    0.6 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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 1930 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Magic Kingdom of Sheepshead Bay Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet
  2. P.S. 254 Dag Hammarskjold School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bill Brown Playground
    830 feet
  2. Jerzee Triangle
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks RC Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Nostrand Plaza Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • 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 21st Street.

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