West 5th Street & Sea Breeze Avenue

West 5th Street and Sea Breeze Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Coney Island-Sea Gate, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Paul Podhaizer Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Temple Beth Abraham is 330 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 ten public places, two of them parks, and three places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ocean Pkwy
1,160 feet · 4 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
W 5 St/Sea Breeze Av · B36
Within a walk
10 places
2 parks, 2 playgrounds and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
West 5th Street & Sea Breeze Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ocean Pkwy, 1,160 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Pkwy Q
    1,160 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
    0.3 miles
    F Q
  2. Neptune Av F
    0.5 miles
    F

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 W 5 St/Sea Breeze Av, 50 feet away, for the B36.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B36 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 294 Neptune Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 532 Neptune Avenue Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1,140 feet
  3. 3035 Cropsey Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 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 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
6 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Paul Podhaizer Way, a co-naming enacted on July 1, 2013 (Local Law 50 of 2013).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,100 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 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Sea Breeze Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Sea Breeze Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of West 5th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Basin Prep II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    310 feet
  2. P.S. 100 the Coney Island School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Asser Levy Park
    40 feet
  2. Asser Levy Playground
    440 feet
  3. Jonas Bandshell in Asser Levy Park Park feature
    470 feet
Show all 6
  1. New York Aquarium Zoo or aquarium
    560 feet
  2. Century Playground
    680 feet
  3. Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk Park
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sea Breeze Jewish Center House of worship
    250 feet
  2. Temple Beth Abraham House of worship
    330 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places 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, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Sea Breeze Avenue or West 5th 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.