East 2nd Street & Avenue W

East 2nd Street and Avenue W meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Barbara Dattilo Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Gravesend Triangle is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
870 feet
Avenue X/E 2 St · B1
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 2nd Street & Avenue W Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Ave U F
    0.4 miles
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Ave X F
    0.4 miles
    F

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brooklyn Transitions” (2018) by Andrea Belag at the Ave U station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue X/E 2 St, 870 feet away, for the B1.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue X/E 2 St B1
    870 feet
    B1

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.7 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

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
12 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Barbara Dattilo Way, a co-naming enacted on February 5, 2015 (Local Law 15 of 2015).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 1957.

Trees

Fifteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Barbara Dattilo Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue W

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Avenue W

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 2nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 2nd Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Our Lady of Grace Catholic Acad School
    160 feet
  2. Brooklyn's Daily Discovery Pre-K Center at 385 Avenue W Pre-K center
    160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gravesend Triangle
    770 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Grace Church House of worship
    440 feet
  2. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    1,140 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and six 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue W or East 2nd Street.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.