Neptune Avenue & West 12th Street

Neptune Avenue and West 12th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Fred Schneider Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 37 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 6,547 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Neptune Playground is 330 feet away. The nearest subway, Coney Island-Stillwell Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the D, F, N and Q. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places and seven places to eat.

Safety record
22 hurt
37 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Coney Island-Stillwell Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · D, F, N, Q
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Neptune Av/W 12 St · B68
Within a walk
7 places
2 playgrounds, 2 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Neptune Avenue & West 12th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Coney Island-Stillwell Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. Coney Island-Stillwell Av D, F, N, Q
    0.3 miles
    D F N Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
4 lines
  1. D …
  2. F …
  3. N …
  4. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Neptune Av F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. W 8 St-NY Aquarium F, Q
    0.4 miles
    F Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “My Coney Island Baby” (2004) by Robert Wilson at the Coney Island-Stillwell Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Neptune Av/W 12 St, 60 feet away, for the B68.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Neptune Av/W 12 St B68
    60 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

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, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1622 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 626 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 37 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 22 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2018

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 6,547 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 122nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 3,658 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11224
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
47 and 48 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
60
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Coney Island-Sea Gate
Elevation
4 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Fred Schneider Way, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,600 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 in 1960.

Trees

Eight trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Fred Schneider Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Neptune Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Neptune Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 9 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of West 12th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of West 12th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Building Blocks Land Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    190 feet
  2. P.S. 90 Edna Cohen School
    550 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Neptune Playground
    330 feet
  2. Luna Playground
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 2880 West 12th Street Older adult center
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,250 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and two food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, two of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Neptune Avenue or West 12th Street.

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