Avenue U & West 11th Street

Avenue U and West 11th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park is 570 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
940 feet · 4 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Avenue U/W 11 St · B3
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue U & West 11th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 25 Av D
    0.3 miles
    D
  2. 86 St N
    0.3 miles
    N

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 11 St, 110 feet away, for the B3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/W 11 St B3
    110 feet
    B3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

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 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 2616 86th Street Gas station
    840 feet
  2. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

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
43
Police precinct
61 and 62 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 900 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 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2015 and March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue U

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 7:30AM-8AM

South side of Avenue U

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

East side of West 11th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of West 11th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 304480.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Meucci Triangle.

  1. Antonio Meucci Memorial Statue, 1989
    290 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Dmi Prep Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    630 feet
  2. I P Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet
  3. Gesher Yehuda School
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Meucci Triangle
    300 feet
  2. Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park
    570 feet
  3. Lafayette Playground
    990 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Temple United House of worship
    410 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. V&W Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and ten 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 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue U or West 11th Street.

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