Living in Homecrest: rent, commute and grades

Brooklyn · Updated November 2026

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Rent in Homecrest

$1,791 a month

Type of homeA room in a 2-bedroom, shared by two

A-Overall

Grades compare NYC neighborhoods with each other. How the grades work.

BWalkability
The average home has 4.8 of 5 everyday needs within a 10-minute walk (grocery store, restaurant, cafe, subway station, park) and about 206 places to eat or shop.
B-Food and shopping
Within a 10-minute walk of the average home: about 49 places to eat, 18 kinds of cuisine, 4.8 large grocery stores and 121 open storefronts.
BParks and green space
100% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park of an acre or more, with about 148 acres of parkland within 1 km and about 400 street trees within 300 m of the average home.

B-Community
18% of households moved in since 2018, 6% are roommates sharing a home, 16% of residents are 22 to 34, and there are about 20 cafes and bars within a 10-minute walk of the average home.
BNightlife
About 14 bars, clubs and restaurants licensed to serve alcohol on site within a 10-minute walk of the average home.

A-Safety
3.2 murders, robberies, felony assaults and burglaries were reported per 1,000 residents in 2025 (162 in all).
A-Quiet
25 noise complaints to 311 per 1,000 residents in 2025, not counting helicopter complaints, and counting each address at most 12 days a year. That measures how often people complain, not how loud it is.
C+Building upkeep
22.9 serious housing code violations (class B or C) were issued in 2025 per 100 rented homes, and there were 7 heat or hot water complaints per 100 rented homes.

By subway or bus, arriving by 9:00 on a weekday:Under 30 min30 to 45 min45 to 60 minOver an hourHomecrest

Homecrest is home to Brooklyn's second Chinatown. Since the 1990s, newcomers from China, Syria, Latin America, South Asia, Israel, Russia and the former Soviet Union have filled its shopping streets with small, locally owned businesses. Source
Homecrest began as Gravesend farmland and was developed in the 1900s as "Homecrest by the Sea", first with standalone Victorian houses. Many remnants of that early period remain. Source
Homecrest's quiet side streets are lined with older single-family homes and low-density apartment buildings, close to several busy shopping streets. Source
Avenue U is Homecrest's main shopping street, where Chinese-owned groceries, restaurants, pharmacies and salons sit beside shops run by merchants from Georgia, Syria, Turkey, Vietnam, Italy and Russia. Coney Island Avenue and Gravesend Neck Road are its other commercial corridors. Source
Homecrest Library on Coney Island Avenue, first opened in 1963, serves many immigrants from Russia, China, Pakistan, India and Mexico and keeps large collections of Russian and Chinese books. Source
William E. Kelly Park, 3.5 acres on Avenue S between East 14th and East 15th streets, is the neighborhood's central green space. Source
Homecrest Presbyterian Church, founded in 1900, has a multiethnic congregation that reflects the neighborhood's mix. Source