West Street & Village Road East

West Street and Village Road East 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. Yeshivat Magen Abraham is 420 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, four of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
620 feet · 2 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
680 feet
Avenue U/E 1 St · B3
Within a walk
11 places
4 religious buildings, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West Street & Village Road East Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 620 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U F
    620 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 N
    0.4 miles
    N
  2. Kings Hwy F
    0.5 miles
    F

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, 680 feet away, for the B3.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B3 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 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 mile
  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 June 2018.

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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,000 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in June 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Village Road East

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Magen Abraham School
    420 feet
  2. Znayka on Y Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lady Moody Triangle
    820 feet
  2. Gravesend Triangle
    910 feet
  3. Old Gravesend Cemetery Listed historic place
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. McDonald Playground
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    450 feet
  2. Beth El Flatbush Congregation House of worship
    1,220 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gravesend Post Office
    240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,150 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Village Road East or West 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.