Gravesend (West)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

The western part of Gravesend, this area extends from Bay Parkway eastward and from around Avenue P south to the Belt Parkway.

  • 1.21 square miles
  • 60,523 residents, 2020 Census
  • 211 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 10 bus routes

Gravesend began with a land patent granted on December 19, 1645, to Lady Deborah Moody and a band of English settlers, making it the first English settlement in New York and one of the first towns founded by a woman. It became one of the six original towns of Kings County and stayed independent until the City of Brooklyn annexed it in 1894.

Sources: Gravesend, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Gravesend Park History (NYC Parks).

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Gravesend (West) borders five areas, and Kings Highway and Stillwell Avenue hold more of its corners than any other street, 20 each of 211.

Street map of Gravesend (West), Brooklyn, outlined among Bensonhurst, Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Gravesend (South) and Bath Beach, with its six subway stations and Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park.BensonhurstMapleton-Midwood (West)Gravesend (East)-HomecrestGravesend (South)Bath Beach
  • Gravesend (West)
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Avenue P lines F
  • Kings Hwy lines N
  • Kings Hwy lines F accessible
  • Bay Pkwy lines D accessible
  • 25 Av lines D
  • Avenue U lines N

Getting around

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

  • 6 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 8 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B1
  • B3
  • B4
  • B6
  • B64
  • B82
  • B82-SBS
  • B90

Express bus routes

  • X28
  • X38

Safety record

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

  • 1,505 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.1 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 11 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 52 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
38
Accessible pedestrian signals
27
Turn calming
7
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
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
  • 14,251 school-zone speed camera tickets at 12 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Bay Parkway & Benson Avenue, 4,820

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 60,523 residents in Gravesend (West), about 50,000 per square mile.

  • 21,754 homes, 2020 Census
  • 972 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 6,442 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 74% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
5.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park (3.3 acres), Lafayette Playground (1.2 acres) and Bath Playground (1.1 acres)
Designated landmark
The Fire Engine Company 253

Streets and trees

Trees
4,211 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Kings Highway, with 20 of the area's 211
Honorary street names
7 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 15 schools and two libraries in Gravesend (West).

Public schools
7
Charter and private schools
8
Libraries
Highlawn Library and Ulmer Park Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Gravesend (West): Antonio Meucci Memorial (1989).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 330 major felonies at places in Gravesend (West).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Gravesend (West)

  • 335 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,243 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Gravesend (West), the NYPD recorded another 141 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 7.8 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Gravesend (West).

Map of Gravesend (West): 13 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 (West), 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 (West), most about 1,250 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 (West) 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 (West) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
62nd (most of the area), 60th, 61st
Major felonies recorded at places in Gravesend (West), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 175 major felonies at places in Gravesend (West), against 162 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.