East 12th Street & Gravesend Neck Road

East 12th Street and Gravesend Neck Road meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. The corner is also named John E. Nikas Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yeshivat Darchei Eres is 320 feet away. The nearest subway, Neck Rd, is about five minutes on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Neck Rd
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
470 feet
Coney Island Av/Gravesend Neck Rd · B68
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 12th Street & Gravesend Neck Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  1. Neck Rd 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 “West Wall, East Light, Morning” (2011) by Mary Temple at the Neck Rd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Coney Island Av/Gravesend Neck Rd, 470 feet away, for the B68.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Coney Island Av/Gravesend Neck Rd B68
    470 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

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 & East 13th Street at Belt Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2624 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    1,150 feet
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.4 miles
  3. 2705 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11229
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
48
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

This corner is also named John E. Nikas Way, a co-naming enacted on December 30, 2013 (Local Law 154 of 2013).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John E. Nikas Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 12th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 12th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-6PM EXCEPT SATURDAY

East side of Gravesend Neck Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Gravesend Neck Road

  • Authorized vehicles only 5 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT

South side of Gravesend Neck Road

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Gravesend Neck Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Darchei Eres School
    320 feet
  2. Starlight Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    670 feet
  3. Brooklyn's Daily Discovery Pre-K Center at 1215 Avenue X Pre-K center
    1,030 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Mellett Playground
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Homecrest Library
    820 feet

Fire and police

  1. 61st Precinct Police station
    400 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    860 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 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 of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 12th Street or Gravesend Neck Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.