Avenue W & West 1st Street

Avenue W and West 1st 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. In 2025, 341 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Old Gravesend Cemetery is 1,250 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave X, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave X
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
880 feet
Avenue X/W 1 St · B1
Within a walk
11 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue W & West 1st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave X, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave X F
    0.3 miles
    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
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. 86 St N
    0.4 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/W 1 St, 880 feet away, for the B1.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue X/W 1 St B1 · Shelter
    880 feet
    B1
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 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, 0.7 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.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 341 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,402nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 202 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
13 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 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 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and April 2022, 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 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of West 1st Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of West 1st Street

  • No parking 2 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

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Our Lady of Grace Catholic Acad School
    940 feet
  2. Brooklyn's Daily Discovery Pre-K Center at 385 Avenue W Pre-K center
    940 feet
  3. Shostakovich School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    970 feet
Show all 6
  1. Big Apple Academy Elementary School School-based preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,200 feet
  2. P.S. 216 Arturo Toscanini School
    1,200 feet
  3. Big Apple Institute Site 2 School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gravesend Library
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Grace Church House of worship
    1,210 feet
  2. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,120 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and seven 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 W or West 1st Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.