West 12th Street & Highlawn Avenue

West 12th Street and Highlawn Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yesodot Hatorah is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, Kings Hwy, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and four places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kings Hwy
1,200 feet · 5 min on foot · N
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
Stillwell Av/80 St · B4
Within a walk
6 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 12th Street & Highlawn Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kings Hwy, 1,200 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kings Hwy N
    1,200 feet
    N

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 25 Av D
    0.5 miles
    D

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Stillwell Av/80 St, 600 feet away, for the B4.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 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
    1.1 miles
  3. 8949 Bay Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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 January 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
19 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 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 1920 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and April 2025, 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 12th Street

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

West side of West 12th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Stillwell Avenue Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    910 feet
  2. Little Scholars Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
  3. P.S. 97 the Highlawn School
    980 feet
Show all 5
  1. Future Scholars Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet
  2. Yesodot Hatorah School
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and six 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 of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Highlawn Avenue or West 12th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.