East 26th Street & Voorhies Avenue

East 26th Street and Voorhies Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yeshivat Mekor Haim is 1,040 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue Z/Bedford Av, is 1,010 feet away for the B36, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them schools, and one place to eat. About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
6 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,010 feet
Avenue Z/Bedford Av · B36
Within a walk
6 places
3 schools, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 26th Street & Voorhies Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue Z/Bedford Av, 1,010 feet away, for the B36.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue Z/Bedford Av B36
    1,010 feet
    B36

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 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
    0.4 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
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2023.

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 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 2 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Voorhies Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Voorhies Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Sheepshead Bay Fishing Piers.

  1. Design Team Project Installation by Scott Burton, 1994
    810 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. Aspiring Minds DC Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,010 feet
  2. Yeshiva of Kings Bay School
    1,040 feet
  3. Yeshivat Mekor Haim School
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 052 Sheepshead Bay School
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Emmanuel Epsicopal Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Cherry Hill Gourmet Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Nostrand Plaza Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and 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 East 26th Street or Voorhies Avenue.

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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.