West 1st Street & Stryker Court

West 1st Street and Stryker Court meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (East)-Homecrest, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Gravesend Library is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave X, 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, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave X
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Avenue X/W 1 St · B1
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave X, 1,250 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave X F
    1,250 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
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. 86 St N
    0.4 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, 610 feet away, for the B1.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 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
    0.9 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2021.

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
12 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, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 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
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and September 2016, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Stryker Court

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

South side of Stryker Court

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of West 1st Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Shostakovich School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    710 feet
  2. P.S. 216 Arturo Toscanini School
    940 feet
  3. Our Lady of Grace Catholic Acad School
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn's Daily Discovery Pre-K Center at 385 Avenue W Pre-K center
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gravesend Library
    590 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    850 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and 12 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Stryker 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.