Avenue T & West 13th Street

Avenue T and West 13th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Laura Gilly Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Christ Temple United is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, 25 Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
25 Av
980 feet · 4 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Stillwell Av/Avenue T · B4
Within a walk
10 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue T & West 13th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 25 Av, 980 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 25 Av D
    980 feet
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave U N
    0.3 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Rediscovery” (2012) by Amy Cheng at the 25 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Stillwell Av/Avenue T, 380 feet away, for the B4.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Stillwell Av/Avenue T B4 · Shelter
    380 feet
    B4
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2616 86th Street Gas station
    1,020 feet
  2. 8949 Bay Parkway Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Laura Gilly Way, a co-naming enacted on October 20, 2003 (Local Law 62 of 2003).

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, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Laura Gilly Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and June 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue T

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

South side of Avenue T

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of West 13th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of West 13th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Stillwell Avenue Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. Gesher Yehuda School
    490 feet
  3. Cts Trade or language school
    670 feet
Show all 5
  1. I P Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  2. Brooklyn Medical Tech Trade or language school
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park
    880 feet
  2. Meucci Triangle
    980 feet
  3. Lafayette Playground
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Temple United House of worship
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    740 feet
  2. V&W Supermarket Supermarket
    1,010 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,160 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue T or West 13th Street.

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