Nostrand Avenue & Gravesend Neck Road

Nostrand Avenue and Gravesend Neck Road meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Perry Kokotas Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Chateau at Brooklyn Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is 320 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Nostrand Av/Gravesend Neck Rd, is 80 feet away for the B36. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Nostrand Av/Gravesend Neck Rd · B36
Within a walk
8 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 1 community center and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nostrand Avenue & Gravesend Neck Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Nostrand Av/Gravesend Neck Rd, 80 feet away, for the B36.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Nostrand Av/Gravesend Neck Rd B36
    80 feet
    B36

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 38 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3095 Avenue U Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.3 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
46
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Perry Kokotas Place, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Perry Kokotas Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and April 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Gravesend Neck Road

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Gravesend Neck Road

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Nostrand Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Nostrand Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 320452.

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
  • 1 community center
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Bambi Day Care III School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    450 feet
  2. Kings Bay Y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    520 feet
  3. Big Dreams Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,120 feet
Show all 4
  1. Congregation Lev Bais Yaakov School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Herman Dolgon Playground
    1,010 feet

Health care

  1. The Chateau at Brooklyn Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    320 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Beford Bay House of worship
    450 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Community center at Sheepshead Bay Community center
    950 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    90 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Gravesend Neck Road or Nostrand Avenue.

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