Neptune Avenue & West 6th Street

Neptune Avenue and West 6th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Howard Lasher Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 30 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The nearest subway, Neptune Av, is about a minute on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and seven places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
30 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Neptune Av
350 feet · 1 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Neptune Av/W 6 St · B68, B90
Within a walk
2 places
1 day care or pre-K site and 1 religious building, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Neptune Avenue & West 6th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Neptune Av, 350 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Neptune Av F
    350 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. W 8 St-NY Aquarium F, Q
    0.3 miles
    F Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Looking Up” (2004) by Michael Krondl at the Neptune Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Neptune Av/W 6 St, 50 feet away, for the B68 and B90.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Neptune Av/W 6 St B68, B90
    50 feet
    B68 B90

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …
  2. B90 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1622 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 532 Neptune Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    310 feet
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 30 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 16 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
7 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Howard Lasher Way, a co-naming enacted on October 10, 2008 (Local Law 48 of 2008).

The streets

  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,500 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 1963 and 1964.

Since 2014 at least 57 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the London planetree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 56 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and February 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Neptune Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Neptune Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of West 6th Street

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of West 6th Street

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306926, 312226, 313593 and 322777.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Little Scholars Learning Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    680 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    850 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    560 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    730 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    560 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    910 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change 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 Neptune Avenue or West 6th Street.

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