West 1st Street & Sea Breeze Avenue

West 1st Street and Sea Breeze Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Boris Talis Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk is 490 feet away, and Asser Levy Playground is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Ocean Pkwy, is about a minute on foot, for the Q. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, three of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ocean Pkwy
370 feet · 1 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
490 feet
West Brighton Av/W 2 St · B68
Within a walk
14 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 1st Street & Sea Breeze Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ocean Pkwy, 370 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Pkwy Q
    370 feet
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Coney Island
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. W 8 St-NY Aquarium F, Q
    0.4 miles
    F Q
  2. Brighton Beach B, Q
    0.5 miles
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Coney Island Reliefs” (2010) by Deborah Masters at the Ocean Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is West Brighton Av/W 2 St, 490 feet away, for the B68.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. West Brighton Av/W 2 St B68
    490 feet
    B68

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 294 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 532 Neptune Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11224
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 13
City Council district
48
Police precinct
60
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Coney Island-Sea Gate
Elevation
5 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Boris Talis Way, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1956 and 1964.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 125 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Sea Breeze Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Three buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 2001 and 2013.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Basin Prep II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    570 feet
  2. P.S. 370 School
    800 feet
  3. P.S. 100 the Coney Island School
    970 feet
Show all 4
  1. Chabad Lubavitch of West Brighton-Manhattan Beach Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Asser Levy Park
    50 feet
  2. Century Playground
    380 feet
  3. Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk Park
    490 feet
Show all 5
  1. Jonas Bandshell in Asser Levy Park Park feature
    510 feet
  2. Asser Levy Playground
    740 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ocean Parkway Station (Dual System BRT) Listed historic place
    730 feet
  2. Brighton Beach Library
    1,180 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Beth Abraham House of worship
    570 feet
  2. Sea Breeze Jewish Center House of worship
    680 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sea Breeze Avenue or West 1st 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.