Mermaid Avenue & West 33rd Street

Mermaid Avenue and West 33rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. O'Dwyer Gardens Community Center is 630 feet away. The nearest bus stop, W 33 St/Mermaid Av, is 50 feet away for the B36 and B74, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them schools, and two places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
W 33 St/Mermaid Av · B36, B74
Within a walk
8 places
2 schools, 1 community center and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Mermaid Avenue & West 33rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is W 33 St/Mermaid Av, 50 feet away, for the B36 and B74.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 33 St/Mermaid Av B36, B74
    50 feet
    B36 B74

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …
  2. 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, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 1979.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Mermaid Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Mermaid Avenue

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

East side of West 33rd Street

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

West side of West 33rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Sunshine Learning Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    660 feet
  2. P.S. 188 Michael E. Berdy School
    850 feet
  3. P.S. 329 Surfside School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk Park
    1,170 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Ocean Drive Public space
    1,250 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. O'Dwyer Gardens Community Center
    630 feet
  2. Older adult center at 3601 Surf Avenue Older adult center
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and eight 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Mermaid Avenue or West 33rd 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.