Mermaid Avenue & West 25th Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 25th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Surf Playground is 650 feet away, and Santos Community Garden is 1,100 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Mermaid Av/W 25 St, is 130 feet away for the B74, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, five of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Mermaid Av/W 25 St · B74
Within a walk
20 places
5 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 25th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mermaid Av/W 25 St, 130 feet away, for the B74.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mermaid Av/W 25 St B74
    130 feet
    B74

Next buses at this stop

  1. B74 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2025.

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 1974.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 45 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and June 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Mermaid Avenue

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

South side of Mermaid Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of West 25th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 6AM-2PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of West 25th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 6AM-2PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 288 the Shirley Tanyhill School
    700 feet
  2. Mark Twain I.S. 239 for the Gifted & Talented School
    1,060 feet
  3. Pal Carey Gardens Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,090 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 329 Surfside School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Surf Playground
    650 feet
  2. Poseidon Playground
    940 feet
  3. Kaiser Park
    1,000 feet
Show all 6
  1. Santos Community Garden
    1,100 feet
  2. West 23rd Street Community Garden
    1,200 feet
  3. Surfside Garden Multi-Cultural Coalition Garden
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Naomi AME Zion Methodist Church House of worship
    830 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Coney Island Post Office
    510 feet
  2. Coney Island I Community Center
    680 feet
  3. Carey Gardens Community Center
    1,070 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #1 Police station
    730 feet
  2. Engine 318/Ladder 166 Fire station
    860 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,180 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Mermaid Avenue or West 25th Street.

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