3rd Avenue & Senator Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and Senator Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Kathleen Hunt Casey 9/11 Memorial Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Joanne Seminara School of Law and Medicine is 170 feet away, and John Allen Payne Playground is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places and 40 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
1,060 feet · 4 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
3 Av/Senator St · B37
Within a walk
16 places
6 religious buildings, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & Senator Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge Av, 1,060 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    1,060 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Bay Ridge
1 line
  1. 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/Senator St, 100 feet away, for the B37.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/Senator St B37
    100 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 Ave & Wakeman Pl 27 docks in all
    460 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 3rd Avenue & 65th Street, 960 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 6737 4th Avenue Gas station
    1,000 feet
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11220
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
47
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bay Ridge
Elevation
70 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Kathleen Hunt Casey 9/11 Memorial Way (Local Law 63 of 2004, enacted on December 21, 2004) and Stedman Square (Local Law 70 of 1959, enacted on June 30, 1959).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 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 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Senator Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Senator Street

  • Ambulances and ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULANCE AMBULETTE ONLY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Senator Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 fire station
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Joanne Seminara School of Law and Medicine School
    170 feet
  2. Guild for Exceptional Children Preschool
    560 feet
  3. High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology School
    730 feet
Show all 5
  1. Gateway City Academy School
    860 feet
  2. Bay One Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Shore Park and Parkway Park
    310 feet
  2. John Allen Payne Playground
    1,070 feet
  3. Leif Ericson Park
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Senator Street Historic District Listed historic place
    370 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge Baptist Church House of worship
    1,050 feet
  2. Salem Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,250 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 241/Ladder 109 Fire station
    450 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SuperFresh Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 40 places to eat and 21 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or Senator Street.

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