West Street & Sloan Place

West Street and Sloan Place 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 630 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 11 public places, three of them schools, and six places to eat. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
960 feet · 4 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
920 feet
Avenue U/E 1 St · B3
Within a walk
11 places
3 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West Street & Sloan Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 960 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U F
    960 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Kings Hwy F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. Ave U N
    0.4 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 U/E 1 St, 920 feet away, for the B3.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/E 1 St B3
    920 feet
    B3

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 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, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2965 86th Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 431 Avenue P Charging for electric cars, 21 Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 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 November 2020.

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
22 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2019 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Sloan Place

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

South side of Sloan Place

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

West side of West Street

  • Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Dutch Colonial, and built between 1830 and 1835.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Magen Abraham School
    520 feet
  2. MAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH- Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    770 feet
  3. MAGEN DAVID YESH-ISSAC SHLM Elementary School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,030 feet
Show all 5
  1. Coney Island Prep Charter High School
    1,040 feet
  2. Magen David Yesh-Isaac Shalom School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McDonald Playground
    430 feet
  2. Lady Moody Triangle
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hubbard House Listed historic place
    980 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Simon St Jude Church House of worship
    820 feet
  2. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gravesend Post Office
    630 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sloan Place or West 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.