Homecrest Avenue & Guider Avenue

Homecrest Avenue and Guider Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Irving Schloss Triangle by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn School of Excellence is 640 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about six minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Neptune Av/Brighton 10 St · B4
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Homecrest Avenue & Guider Avenue 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 …

Also within a walk

  1. Brighton Beach B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B 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 Neptune Av/Brighton 10 St, 410 feet away, for the B4.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Neptune Av/Brighton 10 St B4
    410 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1,310 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 3003 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1,250 feet
  2. 2750 East 12th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
60 and 61 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Irving Schloss Triangle, a co-naming enacted on October 10, 1989 (Local Law 72 of 1989).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,800 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 1938 and 1967.

Since 2014 at least 25 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the common hackberry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Irving Schloss Triangle.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn School of Excellence School
    640 feet
  2. I.S. 98 Bay Academy School
    1,070 feet
  3. Tiny Titans DCC Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,160 feet
Show all 6
  1. Shandor Institute Trade or language school
    1,220 feet
  2. BAM Bam's Playhouse Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,220 feet
  3. Gummy Bears Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Homecrest Playground
    1,010 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 246/Ladder 169 Fire station
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Cherry Hill Gourmet Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Guider Avenue or Homecrest Avenue.

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