Neptune Avenue & West 24th Street

Neptune Avenue and West 24th Street meet at a three-way junction in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. West 23rd Street Community Garden is 60 feet away, and Mark Twain I.S. 239 for the Gifted & Talented is 400 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Neptune Av/W 24 St, is 120 feet away for the B74, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them parks, and one place to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Neptune Av/W 24 St · B74
Within a walk
12 places
3 parks, 2 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Neptune Avenue & West 24th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Neptune Av/W 24 St, 120 feet away, for the B74.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Neptune Av/W 24 St B74
    120 feet
    B74

Next buses at this stop

  1. B74 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Neptune Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Bay 52nd Street & Belt Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2001 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    1,210 feet
  2. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2018
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2022

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
6 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1969 and 1980.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and November 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Neptune Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of West 24th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of West 24th Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Mark Twain I.S. 239 for the Gifted & Talented School
    400 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. West 23rd Street Community Garden
    60 feet
  2. Kaiser Park
    300 feet
  3. Kaiser Playground
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. Calvert Vaux Park
    990 feet
  2. Coney Island Boat Basin Park
    1,210 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at The Home Depot Public space
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Coney Island Fire Station Pumping Station Listed historic place
    230 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Naomi AME Zion Methodist Church House of worship
    380 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 318/Ladder 166 Fire station
    460 feet
  2. Police Service Area #1 Police station
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and six 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, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Neptune Avenue or West 24th Street.

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