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How walkable is Coney Island, New York City?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Coney Island has a walkability score of 77 out of 100 across the 750 m around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the least walkable of the 20 neighborhoods ranked in New York City, which scores 93 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
347 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the center of Coney Island. The nearest grocery is about 6 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, parks, schools and books & libraries. It is weakest for banks.
Groceries
- KeyFood, 17 min
- Aldea Barraneche Totonicapan, 21 min
Restaurants & bars
- Crown Fried Chicken, 3 min
- East Far, 3 min
Shopping
- V.I.M. Jeans & Sneaker Store, 3 min
- QuickRx Pharmacy, 3 min
Coffee
- Dunkin' Donuts, 16 min
- Daddy World, 17 min
Banks
Parks
- Surf Playground, 6 min
- Poseidon Playground, 10 min
Schools
- P.s. 288 The Shirley Tanyhill, 6 min
- Ps 288 The Shirley Tanyhill, 6 min
Books & libraries
- Coney Island Library, 13 min
Culture & entertainment
- Coney Island Amphitheater, 14 min
- Seaside Summer Concert Series, 16 min
Measured from the mapped center of Coney Island, New York City at 40.5765, -73.9929. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the center there are about 35 street intersections per km², and blocks average 125 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 4%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Coney Island, New York City
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 750 m around the center of Coney Island, New York City. Rings mark 400 m and 750 m from the center. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighborhoods in New York City
| Neighborhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Brighton Beach | 2.7 km | 97 |
| Battery Park City | 15.1 km | 99 |
| Lower Manhattan | 15.3 km | 100 |
| Tribeca | 15.5 km | 100 |
| Lower East Side | 15.5 km | 96 |
| Chinatown | 15.6 km | 99 |
| Williamsburg | 15.7 km | 98 |
| Little Italy | 15.9 km | 100 |
See all 20 neighborhoods of New York City ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Coney Island, New York City
Is Coney Island walkable?
Yes. Coney Island in New York City has a walkability score of 77 out of 100 across the 750 m around its center, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Coney Island more walkable than the rest of New York City?
Coney Island is less walkable than New York City as a whole: it scores 77, against 93 for the 5 km around New York City's center. It is the least walkable of the 20 neighborhoods ranked in New York City on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighborhoods in New York City?
Of the 20 New York City neighborhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Greenwich Village (100), Little Italy (100), SoHo (100), Tribeca (100) and Lower Manhattan (100).
How is the walkability score of Coney Island calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Coney Island it is the average of 49 points spread evenly across the 750 m around its mapped center, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap. It measures what is within a walk, not what the walk is like: pavements, traffic, safety, hills and heat are not part of the score.
This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighborhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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