Avenue P & West 7th Street

Avenue P and West 7th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Masjid Bait Ul Tahir is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Pkwy, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Pkwy
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
1,090 feet
Kings Hwy/W 7 St · B82, B82 SBS
Within a walk
7 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue P & West 7th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Pkwy, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Pkwy N
    1,080 feet
    N

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Kings Hwy N
    1,150 feet
    N
  2. Ave P F
    0.4 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “People's Instinctive Travels: Homage to the Tribe” (2019) by Eamon Ore-Giron at the Bay Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/W 7 St, 1,090 feet away, for the B82 and B82 SBS.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/W 7 St B82, B82 SBS · Shelter
    1,090 feet
    B82 B82 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B82 …
  2. B82 SBS …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Bay Parkway at Belt Parkway, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 7021 Bay Parkway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1934.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2017 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue P

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Avenue P

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of West 7th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

West side of West 7th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Success Academy Charter School - Bensonhurst School
    1,190 feet
  2. Elyon College
    1,290 feet
  3. Merkaz Bnos/Bnos Chava High School
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Masjid Bait Ul Tahir House of worship
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Highlawn Post Office
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  2. West 6 Fruits & Vegetable Store Supermarket
    1,170 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 13 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 7th 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.