Avenue T & Van Sicklen Street

Avenue T and Van Sicklen Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Association Caggianesi D’America Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Coney Island Prep Charter High School is 150 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them schools, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
1,310 feet · 5 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
Avenue U/Van Sicklen St · B3
Within a walk
11 places
4 schools, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue T & Van Sicklen Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 1,310 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U N
    1,310 feet
    N

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Ave U F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. Kings Hwy F
    0.3 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Edges of a South Brooklyn Sky” (2018) by Sally Gil at the Ave U station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue U/Van Sicklen St, 860 feet away, for the B3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/Van Sicklen St B3 · Shelter
    860 feet
    B3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & West 2nd Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 8949 Bay Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 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
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
44
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
19 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Association Caggianesi D’America Way, a co-naming enacted on December 1, 2017 (Local Law 237 of 2017).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Association Caggianesi D’America Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue T

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue T

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Van Sicklen Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Van Sicklen Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 309128 and 322764.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Dutch Colonial, and built between 1830 and 1835.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Coney Island Prep Charter High School
    150 feet
  2. MAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH- Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    710 feet
  3. MAGEN DAVID YESH-ISSAC SHLM Elementary School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    970 feet
Show all 7
  1. Magen David Yesh-Isaac Shalom School
    990 feet
  2. Znayka on Y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  3. I.S. 228 David A. Boody School
    1,150 feet
  4. P.S. 095 the Gravesend School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McDonald Playground
    700 feet
  2. Lady Moody Triangle
    970 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hubbard House Listed historic place
    800 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Simon St Jude Church House of worship
    230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    950 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue T or Van Sicklen Street.

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