Neptune Avenue & West 8th Street

Neptune Avenue and West 8th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 58 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, two red-light camera tickets were recorded here. It is 1,310 feet to the 60th Precinct. The nearest subway, Neptune Av, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and seven places to eat.

Safety record
42 hurt
58 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Neptune Av
790 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Shell Rd/Neptune Av · B90
Within a walk
5 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 fire station and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Neptune Av, 790 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Neptune Av F
    790 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
  2. Coney Island-Stillwell Av D, F, N, Q
    0.5 miles
    D F N 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 Shell Rd/Neptune Av, 40 feet away, for the B90.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Shell Rd/Neptune Av B90
    40 feet
    B90

Next buses at this stop

  1. B90 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Neptune Avenue.

  • 10 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 532 Neptune Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    570 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 58 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 42 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 5 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

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

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 199th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 592 more were issued.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Westbound on Neptune Avenue2195
Southbound on Shell Road–397
Total2592

Every corner with red-light 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
5 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to six travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 900 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 1964 and 1989.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and December 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Neptune Avenue

  • No parking 8 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

East side of Shell Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Shell Road

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of West 8th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of West 8th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 304973, 315758 and 322777.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Building Blocks Land Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Neptune Playground
    1,280 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 43/Engine 245/Ladder 161 Fire station
    1,240 feet
  2. 60th Precinct Police station
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,120 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. NetCost Market Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,160 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,000 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    480 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and eight 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Neptune Avenue, Shell Road or West 8th Street.

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