3rd Avenue & 101st Street

The three-way junction of 3rd Avenue and 101st Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. John Paul Jones Park is 730 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge-95 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them parks, and eight places to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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3rd Avenue & 101st Street Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge-95 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge-95 St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/Shore Rd, 170 feet away, for the B63.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/Shore Rd B63
    170 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 99 St & 3 Ave 14 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 4th Avenue & Shore Road, 770 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 9111 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 9602 4th Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11209
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
47
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bay Ridge
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

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.

Trees

NYC Parks records 87 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and July 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 101st Street

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

South side of 101st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Fontbonne Hall Academy School
    800 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Shore Park and Parkway Park
    270 feet
  2. John Paul Jones Park
    730 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dover Patrol Monument Monument or memorial
    850 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.