3rd Avenue & 88th Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and 88th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Frank Griffin Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 264 Bay Ridge Elementary School for the Arts is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 60 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
1,230 feet · 5 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
3 Av/88 St · B37
Within a walk
7 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & 88th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 1,230 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 86 St R
    1,230 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Bay Ridge-95 St R
    0.4 miles
    R

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Heydays” (2011) by Amy Bennett at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/88 St, 110 feet away, for the B37.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/88 St B37
    110 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 89 St & 3 Ave 20 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway at 92nd Street & Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 9111 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 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
73 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Frank Griffin Way, a co-naming enacted on March 7, 2012 (Local Law 14 of 2012).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Frank Griffin 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 January 2016 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 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 88th Street

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

South side of 88th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 304935 and 315754.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Tiny Tots Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    400 feet
  2. P.S. 264 Bay Ridge Elementary School for the Arts School
    770 feet
  3. Stepping Stones Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. Wisdom Tree Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  2. P.S. 185 Walter Kassenbrock School
    1,060 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    850 feet
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 60 places to eat and 15 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or 88th 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.