East 28th Street & Jerome Avenue

East 28th Street and Jerome Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Yeshivat Mekor Haim is 860 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue Z/E 28 St, is 540 feet away for the B36, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them playgrounds, and six places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1955, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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East 28th Street & Jerome Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue Z/E 28 St, 540 feet away, for the B36.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue Z/E 28 St B36
    540 feet
    B36

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3743 Nostrand Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

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 May 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
12 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 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.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva of Kings Bay School
    860 feet
  2. Yeshivat Mekor Haim School
    860 feet
  3. Brain Fitness Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sheepshead Playground
    760 feet
  2. Bill Brown Playground
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Shore Park Jewish Center House of worship
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. ALDI Supermarket
    1,140 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Nostrand Plaza Shopping center
    930 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and six 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

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