81st Street & 23rd Avenue

The four-way crossing of 81st Street and 23rd Avenue is in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Peter Catholic Academy is 910 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Pkwy, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them schools, and three places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Pkwy
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
770 feet
Stillwell Av/23 Av · B4
Within a walk
8 places
3 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
81st Street & 23rd Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Pkwy D
    0.4 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Southbound
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. 25 Av D
    0.5 miles
    D
  2. Kings Hwy N
    0.5 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Tree of Life” (2012) by Xin Song at the Bay Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Stillwell Av/23 Av, 770 feet away, for the B4.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1626 Stillwell Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 8949 Bay Parkway Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

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
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 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 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of 81st Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 81st Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. St Peter Catholic Academy School
    910 feet
  2. Little Berries II Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,120 feet
  3. Aspiring Minds BP Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,150 feet
Show all 5
  1. Yeshiva Ohel Moshe School
    1,200 feet
  2. P.S. 97 the Highlawn School
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1787 Stillwell Avenue Older adult center
    940 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. V&W Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and four 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 23rd Avenue or 81st Street.

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