Coney Island Avenue & 1st Court

Coney Island Avenue and 1st Court meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 2,394 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Bet Yaakov Ateret Torah is 270 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about nine minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Coney Island Av/Avenue R · B68
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Coney Island Avenue & 1st Court Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kings Hwy B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Kings Highway Hieroglyphs” (1987) by Rhoda Andors at the Kings Hwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Avenue R, 180 feet away, for the B68.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Avenue R B68
    180 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2317 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 1730 East 14th Street Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 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 November 2020.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,394 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 370th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 358 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on Coney Island Avenue1,72973
Northbound on Coney Island Avenue665285
Total2,394358

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
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • 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 1929 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and April 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 1st Court

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 1st Court

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Coney Island Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-6PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Ateret Torah Center School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    180 feet
  2. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    180 feet
  3. Bet Yaakov Ateret Torah School
    270 feet
Show all 7
  1. Little Pickles Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    220 feet
  2. Bet Yakov Ateret Torah High School
    270 feet
  3. Yeshiva Bais Chaya Esther School
    970 feet
  4. Sam Consulting Services Trade or language school
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,050 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Okka Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and nine 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 1st Court or Coney Island Avenue.

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.