4th Avenue & 21st Street

The four-way crossing of 4th Avenue and 21st Street is in Sunset Park (West), Brooklyn, and is also named Anthony J. Leone Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St John Evangelist Church is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, 25 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
25 St
1,090 feet · 4 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
790 feet
3 Av/21 St · B37
Within a walk
11 places
6 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & 21st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 25 St, 1,090 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. 25 St R
    1,090 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Prospect Av R
    1,150 feet
    R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/21 St, 790 feet away, for the B37.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/21 St B37
    790 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 21st Street.

  • 28 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 21 St & 4 Ave 21 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 17th Street & Prospect Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 668 3rd Avenue Gas station
    1,290 feet
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 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, July 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11232
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
38
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sunset Park (West)
Elevation
42 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Anthony J. Leone Way, a co-naming enacted on December 20, 2010 (Local Law 3 of 2011).

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.

Since 2014 at least 39 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2021 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 21st Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 21st Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 4th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of 4th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 310449 and 312309.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Cultural Center of New York School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    40 feet
  2. Al-Noor School
    280 feet
  3. Brooklyn Treehouse Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    470 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Little Brooklyn Pre-K Center at 219 25th Street Pre-K center
    1,230 feet
  2. The Little Brooklyn Pre-K Center at 173-177 25th Street Pre-K center
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Czestochowa & St Casimir Church House of worship
    1,000 feet
  2. St John Evangelist Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 21st Street or 4th Avenue.

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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.