West 11th Street & Highlawn Avenue

West 11th Street and Highlawn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. The corner is also named Firefighter William Tropea Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 97 the Highlawn is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about four minutes on foot, for the N. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and six places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
940 feet · 4 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
860 feet
Stillwell Av/80 St · B4
Within a walk
5 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 1 older adult center and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 11th Street & Highlawn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Kings Hwy N
    940 feet
    N

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. N …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. N …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Stillwell Av/80 St, 860 feet away, for the B4.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Stillwell Av/80 St B4
    860 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

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

  1. 1626 Stillwell Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 8949 Bay Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11223
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 11
City Council district
43
Police precinct
62
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Gravesend (West)
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter William Tropea Way, a co-naming enacted on December 17, 2013 (Local Law 131 of 2013).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 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 1915 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter William Tropea Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Highlawn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Highlawn Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of West 11th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of West 11th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Stillwell Avenue Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    650 feet
  2. Future Scholars Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  3. Little Scholars Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 97 the Highlawn School
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 1787 Stillwell Avenue Older adult center
    820 feet

Supermarkets

  1. West 6 Fruits & Vegetable Store Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and ten 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Highlawn Avenue or West 11th Street.

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