Surf Avenue & West 28th Street

Surf Avenue and West 28th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,734 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is 340 feet away, and Carey Gardens Community Center is 1,240 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Surf Av/W 28 St, is 140 feet away for the B36. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, three of them playgrounds, and two places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
1.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Surf Av/W 28 St · B36
Within a walk
20 places
3 playgrounds, 3 religious buildings and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Surf Avenue & West 28th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Surf Av/W 28 St, 140 feet away, for the B36.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Surf Av/W 28 St B36 · Shelter
    140 feet
    B36
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Bay 52nd Street & Belt Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,734 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 484th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 767 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Westbound on Surf Avenue883524
Eastbound on Surf Avenue851243
Total1,734767

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
Police precinct
60
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Coney Island-Sea Gate
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1974.

Trees

NYC Parks records 77 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Siberian elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Surf Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Surf Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of West 28th Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of West 28th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 community centers
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Starting Point - Family Headstart School
    380 feet
  2. Family Head Start/Early Learn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    450 feet
  3. Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    510 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 288 the Shirley Tanyhill School
    820 feet
  2. P.S. 329 Surfside School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Surfside Garden Multi-Cultural Coalition Garden
    210 feet
  2. Poseidon Playground
    360 feet
  3. Surf Playground
    370 feet
Show all 5
  1. Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk Park
    490 feet
  2. Nautilus Playground
    860 feet

Health care

  1. Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Nursing home or hospice
    340 feet
  2. Saints Joachim & Anne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    350 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. YMCA Coney Island Recreation center
    450 feet
  2. Coney Island I Community Center
    810 feet
  3. Coney Island Post Office
    1,040 feet
Show all 5
  1. Older adult center at 3024 West 24th Street Older adult center
    1,150 feet
  2. Carey Gardens Community Center
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Surf Avenue or West 28th Street.

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