4th Avenue & 40th Street

The four-way crossing of 4th Avenue and 40th Street is in Sunset Park (West), Brooklyn, and is also named Firefighter Thomas Phelan Marine Pilot by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. I.S. 136 Charles O. Dewey is 330 feet away. The nearest subway, 36 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the D, N and R. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, eight of them schools, and 51 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
36 St
1,110 feet · 4 min on foot · D, N, R
Nearest bus stop
400 feet
39 St/4 Av · B35
Within a walk
16 places
8 schools, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & 40th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 36 St, 1,110 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 36 St D, N, R
    1,110 feet
    D N R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
3 lines
  1. D …
  2. N …
  3. R …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. D …
  2. N …
  3. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 45 St R
    1,250 feet
    R

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders” (1998) by Owen Smith at the 36 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 39 St/4 Av, 400 feet away, for the B35.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 39 St/4 Av B35
    400 feet
    B35

Next buses at this stop

  1. B35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 41 St & 4 Ave 23 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 17th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 842 5th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 484 43rd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

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
47 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter Thomas Phelan Marine Pilot, a co-naming enacted on July 29, 2018 (Local Law 139 of 2018).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1923.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sawtooth oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter Thomas Phelan Marine Pilot.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and April 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 40th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7:30AM-7PM ALL DAYS

South side of 40th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 4th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

West side of 4th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 313826 and 338788.

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Classical Revival and Romanesque Revival, one each, and built between 1891 and 1931.

  1. Sunset Park Court House Designated landmark
    660 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 136 Charles O. Dewey School
    330 feet
  2. Sunset Park Prep School
    330 feet
  3. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 School
    710 feet
Show all 9
  1. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 15 School
    710 feet
  2. Global Innovators Academy School
    810 feet
  3. P.S. 024 School
    910 feet
  4. Sunset Park Avenues Elementary School
    940 feet
  5. P.S. 371 - Lillian L. Rashkis School
    960 feet
  6. Bubmble Bee Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gonzalo Plasencia Playground
    440 feet
  2. Sunset Park
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sixty-Eighth Police Precinct Station House and Stable Listed historic place
    920 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Michaels RC Church House of worship
    620 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 228 Fire station · landmark
    550 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    410 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    1,200 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 places to eat and 27 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 40th Street or 4th Avenue.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.