Neptune Avenue & Brighton 8th Street

Neptune Avenue and Brighton 8th Street meet at a three-way junction in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Mazel Day School is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Brighton Beach, is about six minutes on foot, for the B and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them day care or pre-K sites, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Brighton Beach
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · B, Q
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Neptune Av/Coney Island Av · B4
Within a walk
15 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Neptune Avenue & Brighton 8th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Brighton Beach, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Brighton Beach B, Q
    0.3 miles
    B Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. B …
  2. Q …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Mermade/Dionysus and the Pirates” (1999) by Dan George at the Brighton Beach station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Neptune Av/Coney Island Av, 180 feet away, for the B4.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Neptune Av/Coney Island Av B4 · Shelter
    180 feet
    B4
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Neptune Avenue.

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 1,270 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 3046 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    290 feet
  2. 2750 East 12th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11235
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
48
Police precinct
60
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brighton Beach
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Shawnee Brave' bald cypress.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and April 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Brighton 8th Street

  • Ambulances and ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULANCE AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8 AM-6PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Brighton 8th Street

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

North side of Neptune Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Neptune Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Shandor Institute Trade or language school
    330 feet
  2. Mazel Day School
    520 feet
  3. Mazel - F.R.E.E. Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
Show all 11
  1. Tiny Bumblebees Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    570 feet
  2. BAM Bam's Playhouse Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    730 feet
  3. Gummy Bears Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    730 feet
  4. Family Head Start Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet
  5. P.S. 253 School
    970 feet
  6. Sunshine Devel - Family HS Neptune School
    1,030 feet
  7. Learn and Explore Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet
  8. William E. Grady Career and Technical Education High School
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Hebrew Alliance Free of Brighton Beach Synagogue House of worship
    510 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 27 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brighton 8th Street or Neptune Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.