Neptune Avenue & West 25th Street

Neptune Avenue and West 25th Street meet at a three-way junction in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Rev Sylvester & Georgia McEaddy Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Naomi AME Zion Methodist Church is 110 feet away, and the Engine 318/Ladder 166 firehouse is 160 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Neptune Av/W 24 St, is 230 feet away for the B74. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings.

Safety record
7 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Neptune Av/W 24 St · B74
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Neptune Avenue & West 25th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Neptune Av/W 24 St, 230 feet away, for the B74.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Neptune Av/W 24 St B74
    230 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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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

This corner is also named Rev Sylvester & Georgia McEaddy Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

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 1989.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rev Sylvester & Georgia McEaddy Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Neptune Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of West 25th Street

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

West side of West 25th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kaiser Park
    150 feet
  2. West 23rd Street Community Garden
    350 feet
  3. Kaiser Playground
    700 feet
Show all 4
  1. Calvert Vaux Park
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

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

Houses of worship

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

Community centers and public services

  1. Coney Island Post Office
    1,260 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 318/Ladder 166 Fire station
    160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 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, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Neptune Avenue or West 25th Street.

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