3rd Avenue & Shore Road

The three-way junction of 3rd Avenue and Shore Road is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 745 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Fontbonne Hall Academy is 580 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge-95 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them parks, and five places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge-95 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Shore Rd/3 Av · B37
Within a walk
4 places
2 parks, 1 monument or memorial and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & Shore Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge-95 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge-95 St R
    0.5 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Shore Rd/3 Av, 50 feet away, for the B37.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Shore Rd/3 Av B37
    50 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Shore Road.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Shore Rd & 4 Ave 12 docks in all
    500 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 4th Avenue & Shore Road, 550 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 9111 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 9602 4th Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 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 May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 745 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 945th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 256 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Northbound on Shore Road38390
Southbound on Shore Road362166
Total745256

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
47 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 101 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2020 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Shore Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-6PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Fontbonne Hall Academy School
    580 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Shore Park and Parkway Park
    50 feet
  2. John Paul Jones Park
    630 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dover Patrol Monument Monument or memorial
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or Shore Road.

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