Avenue T & West 3rd Street

Avenue T and West 3rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. McDonald Playground is 810 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 ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1940, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
1,200 feet · 5 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
960 feet
Avenue U/Van Sicklen St · B3
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue T & West 3rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 1,200 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U N
    1,200 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, 960 feet away, for the B3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/Van Sicklen St B3 · Shelter
    960 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, 1.3 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

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 February 2016.

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
20 feet above sea level

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 1940.

Trees

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue T

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of West 3rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of West 3rd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

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

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Coney Island Prep Charter High School
    260 feet
  2. MAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH- Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
  3. I.S. 228 David A. Boody School
    1,040 feet
Show all 6
  1. MAGEN DAVID YESH-ISSAC SHLM Elementary School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,080 feet
  2. Magen David Yesh-Isaac Shalom School
    1,100 feet
  3. Znayka on Y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McDonald Playground
    810 feet
  2. Lady Moody Triangle
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hubbard House Listed historic place
    910 feet

Houses of worship

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

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,060 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Avenue T or West 3rd Street.

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