Ocean Avenue & Avenue Y

Ocean Avenue and Avenue Y meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Firemen’s Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 21 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,036 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 254 Dag Hammarskjold is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Sheepshead Bay, is about nine minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
21 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Sheepshead Bay
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Ocean Av/Avenue Y · B49
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Avenue Y Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Sheepshead Bay, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Sheepshead Bay B, Q
    0.5 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 Ocean Av/Avenue Y, 120 feet away, for the B49.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Avenue Y B49 · Shelter
    120 feet
    B49
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 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
    1,170 feet
  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
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 21 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,036 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 743rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 542 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
11 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firemen’s Corner, a co-naming enacted on November 10, 1998 (Local Law 55 of 1998).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,800 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 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firemen’s Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue Y

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Avenue Y

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 311862 and 319681.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Magic Kingdom of Sheepshead Bay Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    770 feet
  2. P.S. 254 Dag Hammarskjold School
    910 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bill Brown Playground
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks RC Church House of worship
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Cherry Hill Gourmet Supermarket
    0.5 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 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Avenue Y or Ocean Avenue.

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