Ocean View Avenue & Brighton 1st Street

Ocean View Avenue and Brighton 1st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brighton Beach Library is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Ocean Pkwy, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ocean Pkwy
950 feet · 4 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Ocean Pkwy/Ocean View Av · B1
Within a walk
10 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean View Avenue & Brighton 1st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ocean Pkwy, 950 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Pkwy Q
    950 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Brighton Beach B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Coney Island Reliefs” (2010) by Deborah Masters at the Ocean Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Pkwy/Ocean View Av, 510 feet away, for the B1.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Pkwy/Ocean View Av B1
    510 feet
    B1

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 294 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 532 Neptune Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 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.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
48
Police precinct
60
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brighton Beach
Elevation
5 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two 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 1926 and 1964.

Since 2014 at least 8 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Princeton' American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brighton 1st Street

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY 8AM-6PM ALL DAYS
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of Brighton 1st Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Ocean View Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Buratino International Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    250 feet
  2. Steps to Success V Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
  3. Chabad Lubavitch of West Brighton-Manhattan Beach Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
Show all 4
  1. Learn and Explore Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet

Health care

  1. Shore View Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brighton Beach Library
    970 feet
  2. Ocean Parkway Station (Dual System BRT) Listed historic place
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brighton Beach Jewish Center Listed historic place
    470 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    890 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 29 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brighton 1st Street or Ocean View Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.