4th Avenue & 72nd Street

The four-way crossing of 4th Avenue and 72nd Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 474 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S./I.S. 30 Mary White Ovington is 350 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 59 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
740 feet · 3 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
700 feet
4 Av/Bay Ridge Av · B9
Within a walk
11 places
7 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & 72nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge Av, 740 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    740 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 77 St R
    1,320 feet
    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/Bay Ridge Av, 700 feet away, for the B9.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 4 Av/Bay Ridge Av B9
    700 feet
    B9

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 72nd Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 4 Ave & 72 St 14 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 3rd Avenue & 65th Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6737 4th Avenue Gas station
    1,220 feet
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 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 ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 474 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,216th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 364 more were issued.

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
83 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1914 and 1931.

Trees

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and September 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 4th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 4th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of 72nd Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 72nd Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Six buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Renaissance Revival, and built in 1906.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./I.S. 30 Mary White Ovington School
    350 feet
  2. Bay Ridge Prep School 2 School
    640 feet
  3. Lutheran Elem School of Bay Ridge School
    800 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bay One Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethlehem Lutheran Church House of worship
    400 feet
  2. Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    710 feet
  3. United Korean Church of NY House of worship
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    790 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 59 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 4th Avenue or 72nd Street.

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