West 1st Street & Southgate Court

West 1st Street and Southgate Court 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 Library is 340 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave X, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and ten places to eat. About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1955, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave X
1,050 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Avenue X/W 1 St · B1
Within a walk
5 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 library and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 1st Street & Southgate Court Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave X, 1,050 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave X F
    1,050 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 F
    0.4 miles
    F
  2. 86 St N
    0.5 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “AVEX1-6(station)” (2017) by Derek Lerner at the Ave X station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue X/W 1 St, 360 feet away, for the B1.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue X/W 1 St B1 · Shelter
    360 feet
    B1
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 25 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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.4 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
    1.7 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 February 2019.

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
10 feet above sea level

The streets

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

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 1955.

Trees

Twelve trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2016 and September 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on West 1st Street (east side).

North side of Southgate Court

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Southgate Court

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

West side of West 1st Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 309144 and 316290.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Shostakovich School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    460 feet
  2. P.S. 216 Arturo Toscanini School
    690 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. West Playground
    1,180 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gravesend Library
    340 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    600 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 14 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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Southgate Court or West 1st Street.

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