West Street & Whitney Place

West Street and Whitney Place meet at a three-way junction in Gravesend (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Yeshivat Magen Abraham is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave U, is about three minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave U
760 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
660 feet
Avenue U/E 1 St · B3
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West Street & Whitney Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave U, 760 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave U F
    760 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
    0.4 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, 660 feet away, for the B3.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue U/E 1 St B3
    660 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

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 November 2024.

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 (West)
Elevation
20 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 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 66 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 November 2019 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

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

North side of Whitney Place

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

South side of Whitney Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Magen Abraham School
    260 feet
  2. MAGEN DAVID YESHIVAH- Early Childhood Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  3. MAGEN DAVID YESH-ISSAC SHLM Elementary School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,290 feet
Show all 4
  1. Coney Island Prep Charter High School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McDonald Playground
    690 feet
  2. Lady Moody Triangle
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Hubbard House Listed historic place
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity Tabernacle Gravesend Church House of worship
    1,030 feet
  2. St Simon St Jude Church House of worship
    1,080 feet
  3. Beth El Flatbush Congregation House of worship
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gravesend Post Office
    370 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,320 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 West Street or Whitney Place.

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.