Bay Ridge

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Bay Ridge lines the Narrows from Sunset Park south to the Fort Hamilton Army post and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which opened in 1964.

  • 2.21 square miles
  • 86,779 residents, 2020 Census
  • 384 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 16 bus routes

Dutch settlers called the area Yellow Hook for the yellow clay along its shore until residents chose the name Bay Ridge in 1853; country houses rose along Shore Road in the mid-1800s, and building took off after the Fourth Avenue subway reached 86th Street in 1916. Doctors' Row, a block of 54 rowhouses on Bay Ridge Parkway, became the neighborhood's first city historic district in 2019, and Third Avenue hosts the yearly Norwegian Constitution Day Parade.

Sources: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Owl's Head Park History (NYC Parks); LPC Designates the First Historic District in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

Map

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Bay Ridge borders five areas, and 4th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 42 of 384.

Street map of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, outlined among Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton, Sunset Park (West) and Dyker Beach Park, with its four subway stations and Shore Park and Parkway.Sunset Park (West)Sunset Park (Central)Dyker HeightsDyker Beach ParkFort Hamilton
  • Bay Ridge
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Bay Ridge Av lines R
  • 77 St lines R
  • 86 St lines R accessible
  • Bay Ridge-95 St lines R accessible

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 16 routes stop in or at the edge of Bay Ridge.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 12 local bus routes
  • 4 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B1
  • B4
  • B8
  • B9
  • B16
  • B37
  • B63
  • B64
  • B70
  • S53
  • S79-SBS
  • S93

Express bus routes

  • X27
  • X28
  • X37
  • X38

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 2,072 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 5.4 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 48 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 118 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
99
Accessible pedestrian signals
44
Turn calming
9
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
5
Safety Improvement Projects
3
Enhanced crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 1,670 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 23,696 school-zone speed camera tickets at 29 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
7th Avenue & 86th Street, 1,670
Most speed tickets
Shore Road & 83rd Street, 4,495

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 86,779 residents in Bay Ridge, about 39,300 per square mile.

  • 38,534 homes, 2020 Census
  • 298 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 9,670 residential lots hold buildings from 1925 or earlier, and 90% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
136.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Shore Park and Parkway (83 acres), Owl's Head Park (24.2 acres) and John J Carty Park (8.6 acres)
Historic district
Bay Ridge Parkway-Doctors' Row Historic District, wholly or partly within Bay Ridge

Streets and trees

Trees
9,534 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
4th Avenue, with 42 of the area's 384
Height above sea level
From 11 feet at Shore Road & 68th Street to 172 feet at Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge & Belt Parkway
Honorary street names
52 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 23 schools and two libraries in Bay Ridge.

Public schools
11
Charter and private schools
12
Libraries
Bay Ridge Library and Fort Hamilton Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 50 bike-share stations stand in Bay Ridge. The City's public art inventory lists six works in the area, among them Fort Hamilton War Memorial (1920), Dover Patrol Monument (1931) and Leiv Eiriksson (1939).

  • 50 bike-share stations
  • 6 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 520 major felonies at places in Bay Ridge.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Bay Ridge

  • 515 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,565 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Bay Ridge, the NYPD recorded another 16 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 6.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Bay Ridge.

Police precincts
68th (most of the area), 72nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Bay Ridge, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 264 major felonies at places in Bay Ridge, against 257 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.