3rd Avenue & 71st Street

The three-way junction of 3rd Avenue and 71st Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Firefighter Billy Lake Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Gateway City Academy is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 68 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
3 Av/72 St · B37
Within a walk
17 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & 71st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    0.3 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Bay Ridge
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 77 St R
    0.4 miles
    R

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Strata” (2017) by Katy Fischer at the Bay Ridge Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/72 St, 40 feet away, for the B37.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/72 St B37
    40 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ovington Ave & 3 Ave 16 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 3rd Avenue & 65th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6737 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
78 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter Billy Lake Place, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter Billy Lake Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 21 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on 3rd Avenue (east side).

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

North side of 71st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 71st Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 304464 and 330905.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Bay One Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    50 feet
  2. P.S. 102 the Bayview School
    760 feet
  3. Step Ahead Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
Show all 7
  1. Gateway City Academy School
    920 feet
  2. Guild for Exceptional Children Preschool
    1,030 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 30 Mary White Ovington School
    1,090 feet
  4. Joanne Seminara School of Law and Medicine School
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 216-264 Ovington Avenue Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    1,050 feet
  3. Bay Ridge Library
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethlehem Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,150 feet
  2. Bay Ridge Christ Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    260 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. SuperFresh Supermarket
    990 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 68 places to eat and 24 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or 71st Street.

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