Surf Avenue & West 8th Street

Surf Avenue and West 8th Street meet at a three-way junction in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Firefighter Faizal Coto Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 33 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Asser Levy Park is 80 feet away, and the 60th Precinct is 430 feet away. The nearest subway, W 8 St-NY Aquarium, is about a minute on foot, for the F and Q. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places and 28 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
33 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
W 8 St-NY Aquarium
140 feet · 1 min on foot · F, Q
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Surf Av/W 8 St · B90, T464
Within a walk
11 places
3 amusement parks or rides, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is W 8 St-NY Aquarium, 140 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. W 8 St-NY Aquarium F, Q
    140 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. Coney Island-Stillwell Av D, F, N, Q
    1,300 feet
    D F N Q
  2. Neptune Av F
    0.5 miles
    F

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 8 St, 100 feet away, for the B90 and T464.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Surf Av/W 8 St B90, T464
    100 feet
    B90 T464

Next buses at this stop

  1. B90 …
  2. T464 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1622 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 626 Sheepshead Bay Road Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 33 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020

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 Firefighter Faizal Coto Way, a co-naming enacted on January 19, 2020 (Local Law 26 of 2020).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 700 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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter Faizal Coto Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 113 signs on these blocks
  • 19 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and July 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Surf Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING JUNE-AUG 8:30AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY SEPT-MAY 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Surf Avenue

  • Metered parking 11 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING JUNE-AUG 8AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY SEPT-MAY 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING JUNE-AUG MONDAY-FRIDAY 3PM-MIDNIGHT SATURDAY 8AM-MIDNIGHT SEPT-MAY MONDAY-FRIDAY 3PM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-3PM

East side of West 8th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 5 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 307268 and 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 between 1957 and 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
    650 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 amusement parks or rides
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 museum
  • 2 other places

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Asser Levy Park
    80 feet
  2. New York Aquarium Zoo or aquarium
    240 feet
  3. Luna Playground
    430 feet
Show all 5
  1. Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk Park
    1,070 feet
  2. Asser Levy Playground
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Coney Island Museum
    910 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. The Cyclone Roller Coaster Amusement park or ride · landmark · listed historic place
    330 feet
  2. Coney Island Luna Park Amusement park or ride
    580 feet
  3. Denos Wonder Wheel Amusement Park Amusement park or ride
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. 60th Precinct Police station
    430 feet
  2. Battalion 43/Engine 245/Ladder 161 Fire station
    590 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,250 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and three food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Surf Avenue or West 8th Street.

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