Village Road North & Village Road East

Village Road North and Village Road East meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church is 490 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
570 feet · 2 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
McDonald Av/Av U · B90
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Village Road North & Village Road East Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 570 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Ave U N
    0.4 miles
    N
  2. Kings Hwy F
    0.5 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 McDonald Av/Av U, 630 feet away, for the B90.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McDonald Av/Av U B90
    630 feet
    B90

Next buses at this stop

  1. B90 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 22 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 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2758 Coney Island Avenue Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1 mile
  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 October 2018.

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
19 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,000 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 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Village Road East

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

South side of Village Road North

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

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Dutch-American, and built between 1700 and 1725.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Magen Abraham School
    480 feet
  2. Znayka on Y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lady Moody Triangle
    760 feet
  2. Gravesend Triangle
    960 feet
  3. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    490 feet
  2. Beth El Flatbush Congregation House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gravesend Post Office
    210 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,090 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Village Road East or Village Road North.

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