Mermaid Avenue & West 21st Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 21st Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Pastor Agustín Quiles Jr. Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 28 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 486 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Santos Community Garden is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, Coney Island-Stillwell Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the D, F, N and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
28 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Coney Island-Stillwell Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · D, F, N, Q
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Mermaid Av/W 21 St · B74
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 21st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Coney Island-Stillwell Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. Coney Island-Stillwell Av D, F, N, Q
    0.4 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 Mermaid Av/W 21 St, 110 feet away, for the B74.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mermaid Av/W 21 St B74
    110 feet
    B74

Next buses at this stop

  1. B74 …

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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2001 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    1,310 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 28 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 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
  • Turn calming, July 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 486 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,205th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 201 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
3 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Pastor Agustín Quiles Jr. Place, a co-naming enacted on December 1, 2017 (Local Law 237 of 2017).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 797 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 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 Pastor Agustín Quiles Jr. Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Mermaid Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Mermaid Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of West 21st Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

West side of West 21st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Liberation Diploma Plus School
    900 feet
  2. Pal Carey Gardens Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Santos Community Garden
    60 feet
  2. Calvert Vaux Park
    1,090 feet
  3. Steeplechase Park
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Coney Island Library
    640 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #1 Police station
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and 15 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Mermaid Avenue or West 21st Street.

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