Mermaid Avenue & West 31st Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 31st 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. Kaiser Park is 990 feet away, and Coney Island I Community Center is 1,130 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Mermaid Av/W 31 St, is 100 feet away for the B74, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Mermaid Av/W 31 St · B74
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 2 community centers and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 31st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Mermaid Av/W 31 St, 100 feet away, for the B74.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Mermaid Av/W 31 St B74
    100 feet
    B74

Next buses at this stop

  1. B74 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Bay 52nd Street & Belt Parkway, 1.2 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 ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 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
4 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1975.

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
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Mermaid Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Mermaid Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of West 31st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of West 31st Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 community centers
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Sunshine Learning Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    70 feet
  2. P.S. 329 Surfside School
    650 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kaiser Park
    990 feet
  2. Surfside Garden Multi-Cultural Coalition Garden
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Coney Island Post Office
    1,000 feet
  2. YMCA Coney Island Recreation center
    1,110 feet
  3. Coney Island I Community Center
    1,130 feet
Show all 4
  1. O'Dwyer Gardens Community Center
    1,220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    670 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 14 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 31st Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.