Avenue T & Homecrest Avenue

Avenue T and Homecrest Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 80 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Homecrest Presbyterian Church is 710 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about seven minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
550 feet
Coney Island Av/Avenue T · B68
Within a walk
15 places
7 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue T & Homecrest Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Ave U Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brooklyn Seeds” (2011) by Jason Middlebrook at the Ave U station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Avenue T, 550 feet away, for the B68.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Avenue T B68 · Shelter
    550 feet
    B68
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2317 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    670 feet
  2. 1730 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 80 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,793rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 77 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the American elm and the goldenrain tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue T

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Avenue T

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

East side of Homecrest Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-6PM

West side of Homecrest Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 309946 and 312725.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

  1. Becec School
    170 feet
  2. Bambi Early Childhood Educational Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    250 feet
  3. P.S. 153 Homecrest School
    260 feet
Show all 6
  1. Yeshivat Lev Torah School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    330 feet
  2. Nur Kids Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
  3. Yeshivat or Hatorah School
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Beth-El Jewish Center of Flatbush Listed historic place
    140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Homecrest Presbyterian Church House of worship
    710 feet
  2. Young Israel of Avenue U House of worship
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1413 Avenue T Older adult center
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Star Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and 14 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue T or Homecrest Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.