25th Avenue belongs to the numbered avenues of southern Brooklyn, which stop at 28th Avenue.
Brooklyn’s numbered avenues go up to 28th Avenue, next to lettered avenues up to Avenue Z. Here they belong to a larger grid spanning the former towns of Gravesend, New Utrecht and Brooklyn. The station lies in Gravesend, named by New Amsterdam’s Dutch authorities: Dutch sources point to ’s-Gravesande, ‘count’s beach’, in the Netherlands; some speculate Gravesend in Kent.