Village Road South & Stryker Street

Village Road South and Stryker Street 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. Gravesend Cemetery, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 640 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them religious buildings, and one place to eat.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
770 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
McDonald Av/Av U · B90
Within a walk
7 places
4 religious buildings, 1 cemetery and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Village Road South & Stryker Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 770 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U F
    770 feet
    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
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. 86 St 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 McDonald Av/Av U, 0.3 miles away, for the B90.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McDonald Av/Av U B90
    0.3 miles
    B90

Next buses at this stop

  1. B90 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 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
    1.1 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 October 2016.

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
16 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Stryker Street

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

West side of Stryker Street

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

South side of Village Road South

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1700 and 1725.

  1. Gravesend Cemetery Designated landmark
    640 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 park
  • 1 post office

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    610 feet
  2. Gravesend Triangle
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    990 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gravesend Post Office
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Stryker Street or Village Road South.

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