Avenue X & East 1st Street

Avenue X and East 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. Gravesend Library is 760 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave X, is about five minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and nine places to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1957, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
4 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave X
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Avenue X/E 1 St · B1
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue X & East 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.

  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
    0.5 miles
    F

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/E 1 St, 110 feet away, for the B1.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue X/E 1 St B1 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B1
    Shelter

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, 0.6 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
    0.6 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2024

About this corner

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1957.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and October 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue X

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Avenue X

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of East 1st Street

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

West side of East 1st Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 309668, 312425 and 318283.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 216 Arturo Toscanini School
    280 feet
  2. Shostakovich School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  3. Our Lady of Grace Catholic Acad School
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn's Daily Discovery Pre-K Center at 385 Avenue W Pre-K center
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gravesend Library
    760 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue X or East 1st Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.