49th Street & 9th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 49th Street and 9th Avenue is in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 86 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Yeshiva & Mesifta Vyoel Moshe is 610 feet away. The nearest subway, 50 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
50 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
49 St/9 Av · B11
Within a walk
19 places
8 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
49th Street & 9th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 50 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 50 St D
    0.4 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Southbound
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy D
    0.4 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Internal Connectivity” (2012) by Dan Zeller at the 50 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 49 St/9 Av, 130 feet away, for the B11.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 49 St/9 Av B11
    130 feet
    B11

Next buses at this stop

  1. B11 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 50 St & 7 Ave 22 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4302 Fort Hamilton Parkway Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 484 43rd Street 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 ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 6 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 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 86 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,786th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 44 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11220
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
38 and 43 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West)
Elevation
109 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

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

North side of 49th Street

  • Doctor plates only 3 signs DOCTOR LICENSE PLATES ONLY 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 49th Street

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

East side of 9th Avenue

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

West side of 9th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 220 John J. Pershing School
    280 feet
  2. Brooklyn Chinese-American Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    530 feet
  3. Yeshiva & Mesifta Vyoel Moshe School
    610 feet
Show all 9
  1. Grand Street Settlement Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
  2. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,000 feet
  3. Tomer Dvora School - Site 2 School
    1,030 feet
  4. Modern International Beauty School Trade or language school
    1,080 feet
  5. Little Maven Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,120 feet
  6. G & T Childcare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Health care

  1. Maimonides Medical Center Hospital
    730 feet
  2. Boro Park Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare Nursing home or hospice
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Agudath Achim House of worship
    270 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 49th Street or 9th Avenue.

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