Avenue S & West 5th Street

Avenue S and West 5th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. I.S. 228 David A. Boody is 310 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and four places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1931, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Kings Hwy/W 5 St · B82
Within a walk
2 places
1 religious building and 1 school, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue S & West 5th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy 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. Kings Hwy N
    0.3 miles
    N
  2. Ave U N
    0.3 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “We are each others” (2018) by Julien Gardair at the Kings Hwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kings Hwy/W 5 St, 0.3 miles away, for the B82.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy/W 5 St B82
    0.3 miles
    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 & West 2nd Street, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2616 86th Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 8949 Bay Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43 and 44 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
21 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 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2015 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue S

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue S

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of West 5th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of West 5th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-2PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 228 David A. Boody School
    310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. West 6 Fruits & Vegetable Store Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change 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 S or West 5th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.