Ocean Parkway & Avenue T

Ocean Parkway and Avenue T meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 54 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Shaare Zion Congregation is 350 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue U/Ocean Pkwy, is 940 feet away for the B3, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
41 hurt
54 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
Avenue U/Ocean Pkwy · B3
Within a walk
14 places
10 religious buildings, 1 community center and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Parkway & Avenue T Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue U/Ocean Pkwy, 940 feet away, for the B3.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/Ocean Pkwy B3
    940 feet
    B3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 6th Street, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2317 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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 54 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 41 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 7 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 15
City Council district
44 and 48 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
61
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to six travel lanes

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 1938.

Trees

NYC Parks records 97 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 72 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and May 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue T

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Avenue T

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 18 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Sephardic Community Youth Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  2. Peer Hatorah School
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Shaare Zion Congregation House of worship
    350 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Sephardic Community Center
    980 feet
  2. Older adult center at 1960 East 7th Street Older adult center
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue T or Ocean Parkway.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.