Ocean Avenue & Shore Boulevard

Ocean Avenue and Shore Boulevard meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Rabbi Dr. Eli B. Greenwald Way 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. Sephardic Temple Torah Israel is 160 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Sheepshead Bay Rd/Emmons Av, is 1,210 feet away for the B4 and B49, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and two places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,210 feet
Sheepshead Bay Rd/Emmons Av · B4, B49
Within a walk
2 places
1 public space and 1 religious building, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Shore Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Sheepshead Bay Rd/Emmons Av, 1,210 feet away, for the B4 and B49.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Sheepshead Bay Rd/Emmons Av B4, B49
    1,210 feet
    B4 B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …
  2. B49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 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, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 3046 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 2750 East 12th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2022

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
5 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rabbi Dr. Eli B. Greenwald Way, a co-naming enacted on July 29, 2018 (Local Law 139 of 2018).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 190 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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rabbi Dr. Eli B. Greenwald Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in October 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-2PM

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-2PM

South side of Shore Boulevard

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-2PM

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 public space
  • 1 religious building

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 1809 Emmons Avenue Public space
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sephardic Temple Torah Israel House of worship
    160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Cherry Hill Gourmet Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and two 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 corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ocean Avenue or Shore Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.