Ocean Parkway & Avenue W

Ocean Parkway and Avenue W meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 48 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 10,267 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Our Lady of Grace Church is 750 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue X/Ocean Pkwy, is 940 feet away for the B1, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
34 hurt
48 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
Avenue X/Ocean Pkwy · B1
Within a walk
8 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Parkway & Avenue W Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue X/Ocean Pkwy, 940 feet away, for the B1.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue X/Ocean Pkwy B1
    940 feet
    B1

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway & East 6th Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2624 Coney Island Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.5 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 48 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 34 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2016
  • Turn calming, August 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 10,267 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 6th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 5,100 more were issued.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on Ocean Parkway7,3723,457
Southbound on Ocean Parkway2,8951,643
Total10,2675,100

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

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
10 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to six travel lanes

Homes

About 1,100 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 60 signs on these blocks
  • 15 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and August 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue W

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

South side of Avenue W

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

East side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ocean Parkway

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Starlight Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
  2. Ahi Ezer Early Childhood Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet
  3. Ahi Ezer Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,140 feet
Show all 7
  1. Yeled Vyalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,140 feet
  2. Our Lady of Grace Catholic Acad School
    1,150 feet
  3. Brooklyn's Daily Discovery Pre-K Center at 385 Avenue W Pre-K center
    1,150 feet
  4. Ahi Ezer Yeshiva School
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Grace Church House of worship
    750 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,290 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and three 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 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 Ocean Parkway.

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