Avenue V & West 5th Street

Avenue V and West 5th Street 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. Lady Moody Triangle is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1932, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
1,040 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
870 feet
Avenue U/W 5 St · B3
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue V & West 5th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 1,040 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U F
    1,040 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Ave U N
    0.3 miles
    N
  2. 86 St N
    0.3 miles
    N

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/W 5 St, 870 feet away, for the B3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/W 5 St B3
    870 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 & West 2nd Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 626 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 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 June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
43 and 44 and 47 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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 1932.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 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
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue V

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue V

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of West 5th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of West 5th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1700 and 1725.

  1. Gravesend Cemetery Designated landmark
    630 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 095 the Gravesend School
    800 feet
  2. Znayka on Y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    240 feet
  2. Lady Moody Triangle
    1,140 feet
  3. Cutinella Triangle
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue V or West 5th 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.