4th Avenue & 74th Street

The four-way crossing of 4th Avenue and 74th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Patrolman Arthur Loewe Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bay Ridge Prep School 2 is 130 feet away. The nearest subway, 77 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 57 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
77 St
800 feet · 3 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
4 Av/Bay Ridge Pkwy · B4
Within a walk
9 places
7 religious buildings and 2 schools, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & 74th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 77 St, 800 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. 77 St R
    800 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    1,260 feet
    R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 4 Av/Bay Ridge Pkwy, 380 feet away, for the B4.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 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
    530 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. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 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
75 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Patrolman Arthur Loewe Way, a co-naming enacted on January 19, 2020 (Local Law 26 of 2020).

The streets

  • Up to four 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Patrolman Arthur Loewe Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2014 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 4th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 4th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

North side of 74th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-10AM 2PM-4PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 74th Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 52 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

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Bay Ridge Prep School 2 School
    130 feet
  2. P.S./I.S. 30 Mary White Ovington School
    870 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    200 feet
  2. United Korean Church of NY House of worship
    740 feet
  3. Bethlehem Lutheran Church House of worship
    920 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,030 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,050 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,000 feet
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  3. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 57 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 4th Avenue or 74th 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.