Avenue V & Gravesend Neck Road

Avenue V and Gravesend Neck Road meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Beth El Flatbush Congregation is 1,000 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about four minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,100 feet
Avenue U/E 2 St · B3
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue V & Gravesend Neck Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Ave U F
    1,080 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. F …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brooklyn Transitions” (2018) by Andrea Belag at the Ave U station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue U/E 2 St, 1,100 feet away, for the B3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/E 2 St B3
    1,100 feet
    B3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & West 2nd Street, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2489 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.9 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue 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 December 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
44
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and April 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue V

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue V

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Gravesend Neck Road

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Our Lady of Grace Catholic Acad School
    920 feet
  2. Brooklyn's Daily Discovery Pre-K Center at 385 Avenue W Pre-K center
    920 feet
  3. Yeshivat Magen Abraham School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gravesend Triangle
    60 feet
  2. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    240 feet
  2. Beth El Flatbush Congregation House of worship
    1,000 feet
  3. Our Lady of Grace Church House of worship
    1,020 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gravesend Post Office
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue V or Gravesend Neck Road.

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