Surf Avenue & West 5th Street

Surf Avenue and West 5th Street meet at a three-way junction in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Harry Schwartz Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,586 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. New York Aquarium is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, W 8 St-NY Aquarium, is about four minutes on foot, for the F and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places and eight places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
W 8 St-NY Aquarium
1,010 feet · 4 min on foot · F, Q
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Surf Av/W 5 St · B36
Within a walk
12 places
3 playgrounds, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Surf Avenue & West 5th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is W 8 St-NY Aquarium, 1,010 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 8 St-NY Aquarium F, Q
    1,010 feet
    F Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. Q …
Coney Island
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Ocean Pkwy Q
    0.3 miles
    Q
  2. Coney Island-Stillwell Av D, F, N, Q
    0.4 miles
    D F N Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Wavewall” (2005) by Vito Acconci (Acconci Studio in collaboration with Daniel Frankfurt) at the W 8 St-NY Aquarium station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Surf Av/W 5 St, 230 feet away, for the B36.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Surf Av/W 5 St B36 · Shelter
    230 feet
    B36
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Surf Avenue.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 294 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 532 Neptune Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,586 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 113th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 516 more were issued.

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
8 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Harry Schwartz Way, a co-naming enacted on June 14, 2007 (Local Law 28 of 2007).

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 in 1964.

Since 2014 at least 34 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm Jan-May, Sept-Dec, 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to midnight June-Aug on Surf Avenue (south side).

North side of Surf Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 12 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of West 5th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of West 5th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 314379.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built in 2013.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Coney Island Beach.

  1. First Symphony of the Sea Bas-relief sculpture by Toshio Sasaki, 1993
    680 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 amusement park or ride
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Basin Prep II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    780 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Asser Levy Park
    70 feet
  2. New York Aquarium Zoo or aquarium
    110 feet
  3. Asser Levy Playground
    440 feet
Show all 7
  1. Jonas Bandshell in Asser Levy Park Park feature
    530 feet
  2. Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk Park
    810 feet
  3. Century Playground
    1,150 feet
  4. Luna Playground
    1,300 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. The Cyclone Roller Coaster Amusement park or ride · listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sea Breeze Jewish Center House of worship
    660 feet
  2. Temple Beth Abraham House of worship
    690 feet

Fire and police

  1. 60th Precinct Police station
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Surf Avenue or West 5th Street.

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