Shore Parkway & Bay 20th Street

Shore Parkway and Bay 20th Street meet at a three-way junction in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bath Beach Park is 1,080 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 18 Av/Cropsey Av, is 0.3 miles away for the B8, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and one place to eat. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1950, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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Shore Parkway & Bay 20th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 18 Av/Cropsey Av, 0.3 miles away, for the B8.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 18 Av/Cropsey Av B8
    0.3 miles
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Bay 8th Street & Belt Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1907 Cropsey Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1493 Shore Parkway Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
47
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bath Beach
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bay 20th Street

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

West side of Bay 20th Street

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

North side of Shore Parkway

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bath Beach Park
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

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