79th Street & 23rd Avenue

The four-way crossing of 79th Street and 23rd Avenue is in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Highlawn Library is 820 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them schools, and five places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1955, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Stillwell Av/23 Av · B4
Within a walk
12 places
4 schools, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
79th Street & 23rd Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy N
    0.4 miles
    N

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. N …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. N …

Also within a walk

  1. Bay Pkwy D
    0.5 miles
    D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Stillwell Av/23 Av, 240 feet away, for the B4.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Stillwell Av/23 Av B4
    240 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 1626 Stillwell Avenue Gas station
    840 feet
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 8949 Bay Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11214
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1955.

Since 2014 at least 19 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 23rd Avenue

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

West side of 23rd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of 79th Street

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

South side of 79th Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 1 community center
  • 1 library
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Gold Material BK Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    830 feet
  2. Little Scholars Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  3. Brooklyn School of Inquiry School
    990 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Academy of Talented Scholars School
    990 feet
  2. Magen David Yeshivah High School
    1,000 feet
  3. Yeshiva Ohel Moshe School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Seth Low Playground/ Bealin Square Park
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Highlawn Library
    820 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1787 Stillwell Avenue Older adult center
    780 feet
  2. Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst Community center · preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. Older adult center at 7802 Bay Parkway Older adult center
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. West 6 Fruits & Vegetable Store Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 23rd Avenue or 79th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.