4th Avenue & 73rd Street

The four-way crossing of 4th Avenue and 73rd Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Our Lady of Angels Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. United Korean Church of NY is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about four minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 55 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
1,010 feet · 4 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
4 Av/Bay Ridge Pkwy · B4
Within a walk
11 places
7 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & 73rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge Av, 1,010 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    1,010 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
    1,050 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 Pkwy, 640 feet away, for the B4.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 4 Av/Bay Ridge Pkwy B4
    640 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 3rd Avenue & 65th Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6737 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  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 nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

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

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
78 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Our Lady of Angels Way, a co-naming enacted on June 24, 2017 (Local Law 110 of 2017).

The streets

  • Up to four 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 1910 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Our Lady of Angels Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2015 and November 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 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 73rd Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 73rd Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 35 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Renaissance Revival, and mostly built between 1906 and 1909.

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. Bay Ridge Prep School 2 School
    380 feet
  2. P.S./I.S. 30 Mary White Ovington School
    620 feet
  3. Lutheran Elem School of Bay Ridge School
    1,070 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bay One Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    440 feet
  2. Bethlehem Lutheran Church House of worship
    660 feet
  3. United Korean Church of NY House of worship
    990 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,060 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,280 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  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 55 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 4th Avenue or 73rd Street.

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.