The church that was once located in the heart of that community, Mount Zion Baptist, left the neighborhood and relocated to Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The population of Bath Beach received a boost at the end of 1863 when steam dummy railroad service connected the community to the City of Brooklyn horsecar system terminal at 25th Street and 5th Avenue in Sunset Park.

The neighborhood contains a variety of small mom-and-pop businesses intermixed with chain stores, most of which are located at the Ceasar's Bay Shopping Center at the terminus of Bay Parkway, as well as on 86th Street and Bath Ave. Based on data from the 2020 United States Census, the population of Bath Beach was 33,070.

Bath Beach is served by the D service of the New York City Subway system, along the BMT West End Line.

[9] MTA Regional Bus Operations routes serving Bath Beach include the B1, B3, B6, B8, B64, B82 and B82 SBS[10] in addition to the X28 and X38.

[11] During the 1970s, Bath Beach's commercial strip along 86th Street was used for scenes in the 1971 feature film The French Connection, in the opening credits to the popular television series Welcome Back, Kotter, and most famously in the opening scene of the 1977 feature film Saturday Night Fever.

Tony Manero, the lead character (played by John Travolta), walks along the sidewalk, admires shoes in a storefront window, buys two (stacked) slices of pizza through a pizzeria window-counter at Lenny's Pizza, and ends up at the hardware store where he works (based on a real hardware store on Fifth Avenue in nearby Bay Ridge).

The film John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum features the main character on horseback along 86th Street.