Mermaid Avenue & West 30th Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 30th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. YMCA Coney Island is 810 feet away, and Nautilus Playground is 1,230 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Mermaid Av/W 30 St, is 110 feet away for the B74, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, four of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Mermaid Av/W 30 St · B74
Within a walk
14 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 30th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mermaid Av/W 30 St, 110 feet away, for the B74.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mermaid Av/W 30 St B74
    110 feet
    B74

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, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 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
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 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
4 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 1968 and 1985.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and January 2024, 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 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of West 30th 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
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of West 30th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 329 Surfside School
    350 feet
  2. Sunshine Learning Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    360 feet
  3. Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Surfside Garden Multi-Cultural Coalition Garden
    900 feet
  2. Kaiser Park
    910 feet
  3. Nautilus Playground
    1,230 feet
Show all 4
  1. Kaiser Playground
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    70 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    370 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and 17 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 30th 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.