Avenue P & West 4th Street

Avenue P and West 4th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 177 the Marlboro is 960 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave P, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and three places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave P
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,320 feet
Kings Hwy/W 4 St · B82
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 park and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue P & West 4th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave P, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave P F
    0.3 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Bay Pkwy N
    0.4 miles
    N
  2. Kings Hwy N
    0.4 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Tree Canopy” (2018) by Jackie Battenfield at the Ave P station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/W 4 St, 1,320 feet away, for the B82.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/W 4 St B82
    1,320 feet
    B82

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2524 65th Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11204
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
44
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and December 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue P

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue P

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of West 4th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of West 4th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 177 the Marlboro School
    960 feet
  2. Kings Pointe Talent Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet
  3. 65th Street Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet
Show all 4
  1. A Lot to Learn Training Trade or language school
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Samuel Goldberg Triangle
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. West 6 Fruits & Vegetable Store Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue P or West 4th Street.

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