Oriental Boulevard & Jaffray Street

Oriental Boulevard and Jaffray Street meet at a three-way junction in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 195 Manhattan Beach is 1,010 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Oriental Blvd/Jaffray St, is 120 feet away for the B1 and B49. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them playgrounds, and one place to eat. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1935 and 1940, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Oriental Blvd/Jaffray St · B1, B49
Within a walk
5 places
2 playgrounds, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Oriental Boulevard & Jaffray Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Oriental Blvd/Jaffray St, 120 feet away, for the B1 and B49.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Oriental Blvd/Jaffray St B1, B49
    120 feet
    B1 B49

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …
  2. B49 …

Live arrivals

Oriental Boulevard carries a lane DOT records as a shared lane, not a bus-only lane, all day, every day.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & East 14th Street at Belt Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2019.

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
6 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1935 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and October 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Jaffray Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-2PM

West side of Jaffray Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-2PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 2PM-4PM

North side of Oriental Boulevard

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MAY 15-SEP 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY & HOLIDAYS
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-2PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 park
  • 1 public space
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 195 Manhattan Beach School
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manhattan Beach Park
    70 feet
  2. Manhattan Beach Park Playground
    610 feet
  3. Pat Parlato Playground
    1,140 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Menorah Home and Hospital Public space
    910 feet

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
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Jaffray Street or Oriental Boulevard.

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