4th Avenue & 79th Street

The four-way crossing of 4th Avenue and 79th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Patrick Sullivan 9-11 Memorial Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bay Ridge Catholic Academy is 1,300 feet away. The nearest subway, 77 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them religious buildings, and 28 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
77 St
610 feet · 2 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
78 St/4 Av · B4
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & 79th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 77 St, 610 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. 77 St R
    610 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 86 St R
    0.3 miles
    R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 78 St/4 Av, 390 feet away, for the B4.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 78 St/4 Av B4
    390 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 4 Ave & 81 St 18 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at Fort Hamilton Parkway & Gowanus Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6737 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2020
  • 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
72 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Patrick Sullivan 9-11 Memorial Way, a co-naming enacted on June 14, 2007 (Local Law 28 of 2007).

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 1923 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Patrick Sullivan 9-11 Memorial Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 4th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 4th Avenue

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

North side of 79th Street

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

South side of 79th Street

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Grace Lutheran Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    390 feet
  2. Bambi Day Care I V School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    490 feet
  3. Tutor Time Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,000 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bay Ridge Catholic Academy School
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Saviour Luth House of worship
    390 feet
  2. Bay Ridge Jewish Center House of worship
    490 feet
  3. United Korean Church of NY House of worship
    650 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Anselm Church House of worship
    920 feet
  2. Bay Ridge United Methodist Church House of worship
    1,200 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    820 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 28 places to eat and 15 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 4th Avenue or 79th 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.