McDonald Avenue & Whitney Place

McDonald Avenue and Whitney Place meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Lady Moody Triangle is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them schools, and 12 places to eat. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1949, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
340 feet · 1 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
Avenue U/McDonald Av · B3
Within a walk
14 places
4 schools, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
McDonald Avenue & Whitney Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 340 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U F
    340 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Kings Hwy F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. Ave U N
    0.4 miles
    N

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 U/McDonald Av, 310 feet away, for the B3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/McDonald Av B3 · Shelter
    310 feet
    B3
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 31 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, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 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 May 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
44
Police precinct
61 and 62 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 800 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 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the shingle oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2019 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of McDonald Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Whitney Place

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

South side of Whitney Place

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Magen Abraham School
    680 feet
  2. MAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH- Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet
  3. Znayka on Y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
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  1. MAGEN DAVID YESH-ISSAC SHLM Elementary School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,030 feet
  2. Coney Island Prep Charter High School
    1,030 feet
  3. P.S. 095 the Gravesend School
    1,170 feet
  4. Magen David Yesh-Isaac Shalom School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lady Moody Triangle
    590 feet
  2. McDonald Playground
    750 feet
  3. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hubbard House Listed historic place
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Simon St Jude Church House of worship
    730 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gravesend Post Office
    500 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    900 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 11 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along McDonald Avenue or Whitney Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, 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.