Gravesend (pronounced GRAVE'S end, not grave SEND) is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. Gravesend Town encompassed 7,000 acres (28 km²) in southern Kings County, including the entire island of Coney Island, which was originally the town's common lands on the Atlantic Ocean, divided up, as was the town itself, into 41 parcels for the original patentees. When the town was first laid out, almost half were salt marsh wetlands and sandhill dunes along the shore of Gravesend Bay.

Gravesend is served by three lines of the New York City Subway system: the D elevated line at the 25th Avenue and Bay 50th Street stations; the F elevated line at the Kings Highway, Avenue U, and Avenue X stations, and the N open-cut line at the Kings Highway, Avenue U, and Gravesend/86th Street stations. Gravesend is patrolled by the NYPD's 60, 61, and 62 Precincts