Coney Island-Sea Gate

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

At the western end of Coney Island in southwestern Brooklyn, Coney Island-Sea Gate runs from the rides by the Riegelmann Boardwalk to Sea Gate, a private gated community at the tip with the 75-foot Coney Island Light of 1890.

  • 1.71 square miles
  • 49,517 residents, 2020 Census
  • 194 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 12 bus routes

Once the westernmost barrier island off Long Island's south shore, Coney Island got its first hotel in 1829, and Steeplechase Park, Luna Park and Dreamland opened between 1897 and 1904. From about 1880 to World War II it was the country's largest amusement area, and two rides from that era are city landmarks: the 150-foot Wonder Wheel, completed in 1920, and the 1927 Cyclone roller coaster.

Sources: Coney Island (Wikipedia); Sea Gate, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Wonder Wheel (LP-1708) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); The Cyclone (LP-1636) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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Coney Island-Sea Gate borders three areas, and Surf Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 46 of 194.

Street map of Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn, outlined among Gravesend (South), Brighton Beach and Calvert Vaux Park, with its four subway stations and Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk.Gravesend (South)Brighton Beach
  • Coney Island-Sea Gate
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Neptune Av lines F
  • Coney Island-Stillwell Av lines D F N Q accessible
  • Ocean Pkwy lines Q
  • W 8 St-NY Aquarium lines F Q

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 12 routes stop in or at the edge of Coney Island-Sea Gate.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B1
  • B4
  • B36
  • B64
  • B68
  • B74
  • B82
  • B90
  • B102
  • T464

Express bus routes

  • X28
  • X38

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,812 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 9.3 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 62 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 48 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
42
Accessible pedestrian signals
12
Safety Improvement Projects
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Turn calming
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 1,588 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 27,872 school-zone speed camera tickets at 14 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Surf Avenue & West 5th Street, 1,586
Most speed tickets
Cropsey Avenue & Hart Place, 7,871

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 49,517 residents in Coney Island-Sea Gate, about 29,000 per square mile.

  • 21,867 homes, 2020 Census
  • 3,727 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 2,275 residential lots hold buildings from 1968 or earlier, and 36% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Carey Gardens, Coney Island, Coney Island I (Site 1B), Coney Island I (Site 8), Coney Island I (Sites 4 & 5), Gravesend, Haber, O'Dwyer Gardens and Surfside Gardens developments lie wholly or partly within Coney Island-Sea Gate.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
226.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk (147.8 acres), Kaiser Park (25.9 acres) and Asser Levy Park (21 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Child's Restaurant Building, the Shore Theater, the Wonder Wheel and the Cyclone, among others

Streets and trees

Trees
3,401 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and common hackberry
Street with the most corners
Surf Avenue, with 46 of the area's 194
Height above sea level
From 3 feet at Mermaid Avenue & West 21st Street to 21 feet at Cropsey Avenue & Bay 52nd Street
Honorary street names
25 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 14 schools and one library in Coney Island-Sea Gate.

Public schools
12
Charter and private schools
2
Library
Coney Island Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works in Coney Island-Sea Gate: First Symphony of the Sea (1993), Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance (2002) and Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument (2005).

  • 3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 635 major felonies at places in Coney Island-Sea Gate.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Coney Island-Sea Gate

  • 581 major felonies in 2024
  • 3,315 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Coney Island-Sea Gate, the NYPD recorded another 56 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 14.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Coney Island-Sea Gate.

Police precinct
60th
Major felonies recorded at places in Coney Island-Sea Gate, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 305 major felonies at places in Coney Island-Sea Gate, against 288 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.