Gravesend (South)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Gravesend (South) is the lower end of Gravesend, in south-central Brooklyn, running down to the Belt Parkway, with Coney Island just to the south.

  • 0.93 square miles
  • 30,366 residents, 2020 Census
  • 134 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 10 bus routes

Gravesend began as a town settled under a 1645 patent granted to Lady Deborah Moody, an Englishwoman who brought religious dissenters here from Lynn, Massachusetts, and it was the only English community in a largely Dutch area. The City of Brooklyn annexed the town in 1894. The area holds the 74-acre Coney Island Complex, a subway yard built in 1926 on former marshland and the largest rapid transit yard in New York State.

Sources: Gravesend Cemetery (LP-0921) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Gravesend, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); List of New York City Subway yards (Wikipedia); Coney Island (Wikipedia).

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Gravesend (South) borders six areas, and Avenue Z holds more of its corners than any other street, 16 of 134.

Street map of Gravesend (South), Brooklyn, outlined among Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Coney Island-Sea Gate, Gravesend (West) and Calvert Vaux Park, with its three subway stations and West Playground.Gravesend (East)-HomecrestBrighton BeachSheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen BeachConey Island-Sea GateGravesend (West)
  • Gravesend (South)
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 86 St lines N
  • Avenue X lines F
  • Bay 50 St lines D

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Gravesend (South).

  • 3 subway stations
  • 8 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B1
  • B4
  • B6
  • B36
  • B64
  • B68
  • B82
  • B90

Express bus routes

  • X28
  • X38

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 876 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 6.5 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 18 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 14 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
8
Leading pedestrian intervals
7
Turn calming
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 10,074 school-zone speed camera tickets at seven corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Cropsey Avenue & Bay 47th Street, 6,964

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 30,366 residents in Gravesend (South), about 32,700 per square mile.

  • 12,099 homes, 2020 Census
  • 247 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 2,250 residential lots hold buildings from 1945 or earlier, and 43% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Marlboro development lies wholly or partly within Gravesend (South).

Parks

Parkland
5.3 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
West Playground (2.4 acres), Calvert Vaux Park (1.9 acres) and Marlboro Playground (1.1 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
2,149 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Avenue Z, with 16 of the area's 134
Height above sea level
From 5 feet at Bath Avenue & Bay 46th Street to 18 feet at Avenue W & West 7th Street
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 13 schools in Gravesend (South).

Public schools
10
Charter and private schools
3

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 227 major felonies at places in Gravesend (South).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Gravesend (South)

  • 188 major felonies in 2024
  • 808 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Gravesend (South), the NYPD recorded another 69 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.7 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Gravesend (South).

Map of Gravesend (South): 4 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Gravesend (South), 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Gravesend (South), most about 1,500 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Gravesend (South) are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Gravesend (South) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
60th (most of the area), 61st
Major felonies recorded at places in Gravesend (South), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 98 major felonies at places in Gravesend (South), against 105 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.