3rd Avenue & 74th Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and 74th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Ragamuffin Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bay Ridge Prep School 2 is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, 77 St, is about six minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and 70 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & 74th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 77 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  1. 77 St 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. Bay Ridge Av R
    0.4 miles
    R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/Bay Ridge Pkwy, 180 feet away, for the B37.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/Bay Ridge Pkwy B37 · Shelter
    180 feet
    B37
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 Ave & 77 St 16 docks in all
    860 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
    0.5 miles
  2. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five 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 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

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
82 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Ragamuffin Way, a co-naming enacted on February 25, 2016 (Local Law 23 of 2016).

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 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Ragamuffin Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 43 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and December 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 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of 74th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-10AM 2PM-4PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 74th Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 307236 and 322049.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Bay One Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  2. Bay Ridge Prep School 2 School
    750 feet
  3. Tutor Time Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 102 the Bayview School
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bay Ridge Library
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge Christ Church House of worship
    790 feet
  2. Bay Ridge United Methodist Church House of worship
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    330 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    550 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    210 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 22 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or 74th 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.