Ocean Parkway & Avenue Z

Ocean Parkway and Avenue Z meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (South), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 71 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Coney Island Hospital is 870 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue Z/Ocean Pkwy, is 130 feet away for the B4, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and one place to eat.

Safety record
49 hurt
71 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Avenue Z/Ocean Pkwy · B4
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 hospitals and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Parkway & Avenue Z Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue Z/Ocean Pkwy, 130 feet away, for the B4.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue Z/Ocean Pkwy B4 · Shelter
    130 feet
    B4
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & West 2nd Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 294 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.4 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 71 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 49 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 12 of those hurt, on foot
  • 6 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, June 2023
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
47 and 48 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
60
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (South)
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to six travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 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 1949 and 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 84 signs on these blocks
  • 23 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and July 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue Z

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue Z

  • Doctor plates only 3 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Ocean Parkway

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 10AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 307894.

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 hospitals
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Neshama 1 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    360 feet
  2. Yeshivat Lev Torah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,250 feet
  3. Mommy Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. West Playground
    970 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 43 Ambulance station
    700 feet
  2. Coney Island Hospital
    870 feet
  3. South Brooklyn Health Hospital
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet 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 Avenue Z or Ocean Parkway.

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