Emmons Avenue & Sheepshead Bay Road

Emmons Avenue and Sheepshead Bay Road meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Lena Azizo Cymbrowitz Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sheepshead Bay Piers is 610 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about six minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 34 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Sheepshead Bay Rd/Emmons Av · B4, B49
Within a walk
8 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Emmons Avenue & Sheepshead Bay Road 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 …

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 Sheepshead Bay Rd/Emmons Av, 70 feet away, for the B4 and B49.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sheepshead Bay Rd/Emmons Av B4, B49
    70 feet
    B4 B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …
  2. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Emmons Avenue.

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & East 14th Street at Belt Parkway, 0.3 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
    0.3 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2018

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
6 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Lena Azizo Cymbrowitz Way, a co-naming enacted on June 3, 2003 (Local Law 34 of 2003).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 7 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lena Azizo Cymbrowitz Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and April 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Emmons Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Sheepshead Bay Road

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Sheepshead Bay Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-MIDNIGHT ALL DAYS

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 303949 and 313923.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Spanish Colonial Revival. They were built between 1862 and 1934.

  1. F.W.I.L. Lundy Brothers Restaurant Building Designated landmark
    300 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 public space
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Nata's Kids Preschool
    670 feet
  2. Butterfly Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    880 feet
  3. I.S. 98 Bay Academy School
    1,230 feet
Show all 4
  1. Steps to Success III Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sheepshead Bay Piers Park
    610 feet
  2. Sixteen Lindens Triangle
    640 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 1809 Emmons Avenue Public space
    280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sephardic Temple Torah Israel House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Hill Gourmet Supermarket
    500 feet
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    1,120 feet
  3. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 places to eat and six food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Emmons Avenue or Sheepshead Bay Road.

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