Mermaid Avenue & West 27th Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 27th Street meet at a three-way junction in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Father Connie Mobley Boulevard by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Coney Island I Community Center is 380 feet away, and Kaiser Park is 920 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Mermaid Av/W 27 St, is 130 feet away for the B74. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, five of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Mermaid Av/W 27 St · B74
Within a walk
19 places
5 religious buildings, 3 playgrounds and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 27th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mermaid Av/W 27 St, 130 feet away, for the B74.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mermaid Av/W 27 St B74 · Shelter
    130 feet
    B74
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B74 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 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, 1 mile by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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

This corner is also named Father Connie Mobley Boulevard, a co-naming enacted on August 10, 2015 (Local Law 76 of 2015).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1972 and 1974.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Father Connie Mobley Boulevard.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and August 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Mermaid Avenue (south side).

North side of Mermaid Avenue

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

East side of West 27th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of West 27th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306445 and 323167.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 329 Surfside School
    840 feet
  2. P.S. 288 the Shirley Tanyhill School
    990 feet
  3. Starting Point - Family Headstart School
    1,220 feet
Show all 4
  1. Sunshine Learning Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kaiser Park
    920 feet
  2. Surfside Garden Multi-Cultural Coalition Garden
    940 feet
  3. Surf Playground
    950 feet
Show all 5
  1. Kaiser Playground
    1,240 feet
  2. Poseidon Playground
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Coney Island Post Office
    220 feet
  2. Coney Island I Community Center
    380 feet
  3. YMCA Coney Island Recreation center
    1,160 feet

Fire and police

  1. Police Service Area #1 Police station
    1,030 feet
  2. Engine 318/Ladder 166 Fire station
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    880 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change 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 27th Street.

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