Avenue T & West 8th Street

Avenue T and West 8th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Gesher Yehuda is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about a minute on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
140 feet · 1 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
820 feet
Avenue U/W 8 St · B3
Within a walk
4 places
2 religious buildings, 1 listed historic place and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue T & West 8th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 140 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U N
    140 feet
    N

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Kings Hwy N
    0.4 miles
    N
  2. 25 Av D
    0.4 miles
    D

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/W 8 St, 820 feet away, for the B3.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/W 8 St B3
    820 feet
    B3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 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. 2616 86th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 8949 Bay Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 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
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and September 2024, 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

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of West 8th Street

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

West side of West 8th Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 307255, 310386 and 316017.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Gesher Yehuda School
    940 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Avenue U Station (Dual System BRT) Listed historic place
    530 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

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

See every intersection along Avenue T or West 8th Street.

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