Mermaid Avenue & West 29th Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 29th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 329 Surfside is 250 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Mermaid Av/W 29 St, is 130 feet away for the B74, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Mermaid Av/W 29 St · B74
Within a walk
15 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 29th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mermaid Av/W 29 St, 130 feet away, for the B74.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mermaid Av/W 29 St B74 · Shelter
    130 feet
    B74
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B74 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 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, 1.1 miles 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 seven crashes at this corner, the median for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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 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 1975.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese pagoda tree and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and August 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Mermaid Avenue

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

South side of Mermaid Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of West 29th 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 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

West side of West 29th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 329 Surfside School
    250 feet
  2. Sunshine Learning Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet
  3. Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
Show all 4
  1. Starting Point - Family Headstart School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Surfside Garden Multi-Cultural Coalition Garden
    600 feet
  2. Kaiser Park
    910 feet
  3. Kaiser Playground
    940 feet

Health care

  1. Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Coney Island Post Office
    410 feet
  2. Coney Island I Community Center
    530 feet
  3. YMCA Coney Island Recreation center
    710 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    370 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    290 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 19 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 29th 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.