Coney Island Avenue & Avenue U

Coney Island Avenue and Avenue U meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Lester’s Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,578 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Yeshivat or Hatorah is 840 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about six minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, five of them religious buildings, and 41 places to eat.

Safety record
23 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Coney Island Av/Avenue U · B68
Within a walk
8 places
5 religious buildings, 1 fire station and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Coney Island Avenue & Avenue U Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Ave U Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brooklyn Seeds” (2011) by Jason Middlebrook at the Ave U station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Avenue U, 60 feet away, for the B68.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Avenue U B68 · Shelter
    60 feet
    B68
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 47 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 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 2317 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    830 feet
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.6 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 23 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,578 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 526th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 928 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
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Lester’s Way, a co-naming enacted on July 29, 2018 (Local Law 139 of 2018).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lester’s Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 60 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 12 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2020 and November 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue U

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Avenue U

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AVO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Coney Island Avenue

  • Metered parking 8 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Coney Island Avenue

  • Metered parking 11 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Ambulances and ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULANCE AMBULETTE ONLY 8AM-8PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 303438, 303451, 309675 and 309713.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat or Hatorah School
    840 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Homecrest Library
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Avenue U House of worship
    680 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 254/Ladder 153 Fire station
    300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Star Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 41 places to eat and 23 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 Avenue U 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.