Mermaid Avenue & West 28th Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 28th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Charlotte L. Taylor Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Coney Island Post Office is 130 feet away, and Naomi AME Zion Methodist Church is 1,290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Mermaid Av/W 28 St, is 110 feet away for the B74. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, five of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Mermaid Av/W 28 St · B74
Within a walk
20 places
5 religious buildings, 3 playgrounds and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 28th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mermaid Av/W 28 St, 110 feet away, for the B74.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mermaid Av/W 28 St B74
    110 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, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 2001 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.9 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
5 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Charlotte L. Taylor Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 1985.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Charlotte L. Taylor Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

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

South side of Mermaid Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of West 28th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of West 28th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 nursing homes or hospices
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 329 Surfside School
    550 feet
  2. Starting Point - Family Headstart School
    930 feet
  3. Sunshine Learning Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
Show all 5
  1. Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  2. P.S. 288 the Shirley Tanyhill School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Surfside Garden Multi-Cultural Coalition Garden
    650 feet
  2. Kaiser Park
    920 feet
  3. Kaiser Playground
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. Surf Playground
    1,240 feet
  2. Poseidon Playground
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,280 feet
  2. Saints Joachim & Anne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Naomi AME Zion Methodist Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Coney Island Post Office
    130 feet
  2. Coney Island I Community Center
    230 feet
  3. YMCA Coney Island Recreation center
    870 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    590 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 16 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 28th 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.