Mermaid Avenue & West 22nd Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 22nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Carey Gardens development. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 311 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Coney Island Library is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Coney Island-Stillwell Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the D, F, N and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places and four places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Coney Island-Stillwell Av
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · D, F, N, Q
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Mermaid Av/W 22 St · B74
Within a walk
14 places
4 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 22nd 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 nine 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 22 St, 110 feet away, for the B74.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mermaid Av/W 22 St B74 · Shelter
    110 feet
    B74
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B74 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2001 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 311 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,446th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 163 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
5 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1969 and 2000.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Carey Gardens development.

Since 2014 at least 357 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2015 and June 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Mermaid Avenue

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

South side of Mermaid Avenue

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

East side of West 22nd Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of West 22nd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 6AM-NOON

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Pal Carey Gardens Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    790 feet
  2. Liberation Diploma Plus School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Santos Community Garden
    200 feet
  2. West 23rd Street Community Garden
    1,220 feet
  3. Calvert Vaux Park
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Seaside Park & Community Arts Center Public space
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Coney Island Library
    940 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Sandy Recovery Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    900 feet
  2. Carey Gardens Community Center
    1,080 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #1 Police station
    440 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 14 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 22nd Street.

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