West 1st Street & Village Road South

West 1st Street and Village Road South 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 Post Office is 1,160 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, four of them religious buildings, and two places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
970 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,320 feet
Avenue X/W 1 St · B1
Within a walk
8 places
4 religious buildings, 1 cemetery and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 1st Street & Village Road South Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 970 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U F
    970 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
    0.5 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 Avenue X/W 1 St, 1,320 feet away, for the B1.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue X/W 1 St B1 · Shelter
    1,320 feet
    B1
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …

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 & 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 January 2013.

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
15 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 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Village Road South

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of West 1st Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

  1. Gravesend Cemetery Designated landmark
    800 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    810 feet
  2. Gravesend Triangle
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Gravesend Library
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    860 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gravesend Post Office
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and two 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 Village Road South or West 1st Street.

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.