3rd Avenue & 73rd Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and 73rd Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Harry G. English Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bay Ridge Library is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 70 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
3 Av/72 St · B37
Within a walk
12 places
6 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & 73rd 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 seven 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
    0.3 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, 320 feet away, for the B37.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 73 St & Ridge Blvd 16 docks in all
    760 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 3rd Avenue & 65th Street, 0.5 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
    0.9 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020

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
81 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Harry G. English 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 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1917 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Harry G. English Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

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

North side of 73rd Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 73rd Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 305288 and 307236.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Bay One Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    470 feet
  2. P.S. 102 the Bayview School
    990 feet
  3. Bay Ridge Prep School 2 School
    1,010 feet
Show all 4
  1. Step Ahead Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bay Ridge Library
    770 feet
  2. Houses at 216-264 Ovington Avenue Listed historic place
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge Christ Church House of worship
    780 feet
  2. Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
  3. Bethlehem Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,310 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    290 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    590 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    470 feet
  2. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 70 places to eat and 23 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or 73rd 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.