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Bath Beach, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Bath Beach fronts Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn, bounded by 86th Street, 14th Avenue and Stillwell Avenue.
About Bath Beach
Where to stay in Bath Beach
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Three streets draw the box. Bath Beach fills the ground inside 86th Street, 14th Avenue and Stillwell Avenue, with Gravesend Bay closing the fourth side, so anything booked within those limits is a short walk from the water. Bensonhurst lies across 86th Street. Rooms come easier over there, or east past Stillwell Avenue in Gravesend, and what a visitor gives up by taking one of them is the bay frontage that named this corner of Brooklyn in the first place.
About Bath Beach
What are the main landmarks in Bath Beach?
Bath Beach lists one landmark, and it is a church. The New Utrecht Reformed Church is the single entry recorded around these streets, and it takes its name from New Utrecht, which lies with Bensonhurst on the far side of 86th Street. Green ground sits the other way.
Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course begins across 14th Avenue, leaving the neighborhood with a bay along one edge and a golf course along another while holding neither inside its own boundary.
What is the history of Bath Beach?
Boundaries tell most of the story. Bath Beach is defined by what it meets: Bensonhurst and New Utrecht across 86th Street, Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course across 14th Avenue, Gravesend across Stillwell Avenue, and Gravesend Bay taking the remaining side. The New Utrecht Reformed Church holds the oldest name.
That name belongs to the settlement next door rather than to Bath Beach itself, and the church stays the one entry on a landmark list that this part of New York City has otherwise left short.
Where is Bath Beach?
Bath Beach lies on Gravesend Bay at the southwestern edge of the borough, with Dyker Beach Park and Golf Course beginning across 14th Avenue.
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Updated August 2026