West 3rd Street & West 2nd Place

West 3rd Street and West 2nd Place meet at a three-way junction in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 100 the Coney Island School is 250 feet away. The nearest subway, Ocean Pkwy, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 4,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1964, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ocean Pkwy
1,050 feet · 4 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
730 feet
West Brighton Av/W 2 St · B68
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 3rd Street & West 2nd Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ocean Pkwy, 1,050 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Pkwy Q
    1,050 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
    0.5 miles
    F 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, 730 feet away, for the B68.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Shore Parkway & Belt Parkway, 0.9 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
    0.4 miles
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2016.

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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 4,000 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

Fourteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and May 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of West 2nd Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of West 2nd Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of West 3rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of West 3rd Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 100 the Coney Island School
    250 feet
  2. P.S. 370 School
    390 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Century Playground
    290 feet
  2. Jonas Bandshell in Asser Levy Park Park feature
    1,020 feet
  3. Asser Levy Park
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Temple Beth Abraham House of worship
    710 feet
  2. Sea Breeze Jewish Center House of worship
    740 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along West 3rd Street.

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