Avenue U & West 13th Street

Avenue U and West 13th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park is 50 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 17 public places, five of them schools, and 13 places to eat. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
25 Av
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Avenue U/W 12 St · B3
Within a walk
17 places
5 schools, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 25 Av, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 25 Av D
    1,160 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
  2. 86 St N
    0.4 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 Avenue U/W 12 St, 150 feet away, for the B3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/W 12 St B3
    150 feet
    B3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2616 86th Street Gas station
    510 feet
  2. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.3 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 April 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
43
Police precinct
60 and 62 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and April 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue U

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Avenue U

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of West 13th Street

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

West side of West 13th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

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
    230 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 trade or language schools

Schools and child care

  1. I P Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    200 feet
  2. Dmi Prep Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet
  3. Cts Trade or language school
    1,050 feet
Show all 10
  1. Stillwell Avenue Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  2. Brooklyn Medical Tech Trade or language school
    1,170 feet
  3. High School of Sports Management School
    1,250 feet
  4. International High School at Lafayette School
    1,250 feet
  5. Kingsborough Early College School
    1,250 feet
  6. Leaders High School
    1,250 feet
  7. Life Academy High School for Business and Technology School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Police Officer John G. Scarangella Park
    50 feet
  2. Meucci Triangle
    210 feet
  3. Lafayette Playground
    470 feet
Show all 4
  1. Scarangella Park Playground
    810 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Temple United House of worship
    510 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. V&W Supermarket Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    950 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 13 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 13th 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.