Ocean Avenue & Gravesend Neck Road

Ocean Avenue and Gravesend Neck Road meet at a four-way crossing in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 2,794 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Yeshivat Ohel Torah is 600 feet away. The nearest subway, Neck Rd, is about five minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Neck Rd
1,290 feet · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Ocean Av/Neck Rd · T464
Within a walk
12 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Gravesend Neck Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Neck Rd, 1,290 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Neck Rd Q
    1,290 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave U Q
    0.4 miles
    Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “West Wall, East Light, Morning” (2011) by Mary Temple at the Neck Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Neck Rd, 70 feet away, for the T464.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Neck Rd T464
    70 feet
    T464

Next buses at this stop

  1. T464 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 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, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2001 Gravesend Neck Road Gas station
    at this corner
  2. 1524 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,794 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 318th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 1,078 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 1954.

Since 2014 at least 18 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Gravesend Neck Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Gravesend Neck Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SATURDAY
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Ohel Torah School
    600 feet
  2. Blue's Clue's DC Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  3. P.S. 206 Joseph F Lamb School
    810 feet
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  1. A2Z Happyland III Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    810 feet
  2. Fantasia D. C. C. Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  3. Brooklyn Star Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Galapo Playground
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ocean Avenue Jewish Center House of worship
    560 feet
  2. Nachlath Zion Jewish Center House of worship
    900 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 2600 Ocean Avenue Older adult center
    600 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  2. Star Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Ocean Avenue.

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