Mermaid Avenue & West 20th Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 20th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Sarah Virginia Kennedy Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Sandy Recovery Workforce1 Career Center is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Coney Island-Stillwell Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the D, F, N and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Coney Island-Stillwell Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · D, F, N, Q
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
West 20 St/Mermaid Av · X38
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 20th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Coney Island-Stillwell Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. Coney Island-Stillwell Av D, F, N, Q
    0.3 miles
    D F N Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
4 lines
  1. D …
  2. F …
  3. N …
  4. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “My Coney Island Baby” (2004) by Robert Wilson at the Coney Island-Stillwell Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is West 20 St/Mermaid Av, 70 feet away, for the X38.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West 20 St/Mermaid Av X38
    70 feet
    X38

Next buses at this stop

  1. X38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 36 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Bay 52nd Street & Belt Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2001 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    1,010 feet
  2. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11224
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
47
Police precinct
60
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Coney Island-Sea Gate
Elevation
4 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Sarah Virginia Kennedy Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 802 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Sarah Virginia Kennedy Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2019 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Mermaid Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Mermaid Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of West 20th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of West 20th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in MCU Park.

  1. Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument Statue by William Behrends, 2005
    710 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Liberation Diploma Plus School
    600 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Santos Community Garden
    360 feet
  2. Steeplechase Park
    850 feet
  3. Calvert Vaux Park
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at The Home Depot Public space
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Coney Island Library
    340 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Sandy Recovery Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #1 Police station
    1,030 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    770 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Mermaid Avenue or West 20th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.