4th Avenue & 65th Street

The four-way crossing of 4th Avenue and 65th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Abe Kanter Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. It is 500 feet to the 64th Street Community Garden. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
1,110 feet · 4 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
4 Av/65 St · B9
Within a walk
14 places
5 religious buildings, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & 65th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge Av, 1,110 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    1,110 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Bay Ridge
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 59 St N, R
    1,240 feet
    N 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 4 Av/65 St, 50 feet away, for the B9.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 4 Av/65 St B9
    50 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 4th Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 4 Ave & Shore Road Dr 20 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 3rd Avenue & 65th Street, 770 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 6401 4th Avenue Gas station
    290 feet
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2021.

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
77 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Abe Kanter Way, a co-naming enacted on July 11, 2011 (Local Law 47 of 2011).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 84 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Seventeen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Abe Kanter Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 4th Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 4th Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 65th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 4 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 65th Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 3 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • Back-in parking only 4 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Leif Ericson Park.

  1. Leiv Eiriksson Stele by August Werner, 1939
    500 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. School of Math, Science, and Healthy Living School
    670 feet
  2. High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology School
    770 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Leif Ericson Park
    310 feet
  2. Shore Park and Parkway Park
    310 feet
  3. 64th Street Community Garden
    500 feet
Show all 5
  1. John Allen Payne Playground
    880 feet
  2. Millennium Playground
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Senator Street Historic District Listed historic place
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge Baptist Church House of worship
    570 feet
  2. Salem Lutheran Church House of worship
    960 feet

Fire and police

  1. 68th Precinct Police station
    560 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 4th Avenue or 65th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.