Avenue W & Stryker Street

Avenue W and Stryker Street meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Big Apple Institute Site 2 is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave X, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave X
1,030 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
990 feet
Avenue X/Shell Rd · B1
Within a walk
12 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue W & Stryker Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave X, 1,030 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave X F
    1,030 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 F
    1,280 feet
    F
  2. 86 St N
    0.3 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “AVEX1-6(station)” (2017) by Derek Lerner at the Ave X station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue X/Shell Rd, 990 feet away, for the B1.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue X/Shell Rd B1
    990 feet
    B1

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.3 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
    1.6 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.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1930 and 1950.

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
  • 28 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue W

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

South side of Avenue W

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Stryker Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Stryker Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 library
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Big Apple Academy Elementary School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    880 feet
  2. Big Apple Institute Site 2 School
    970 feet
  3. Shostakovich School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,130 feet
Show all 7
  1. Big Apple Institute School
    1,220 feet
  2. Bambi Academy School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,250 feet
  3. Our Lady of Grace Catholic Acad School
    1,250 feet
  4. Brooklyn's Daily Discovery Pre-K Center at 385 Avenue W Pre-K center
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    1,120 feet
  2. Cutinella Triangle
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gravesend Library
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and eight 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue W or Stryker 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.