4th Avenue & 96th Street

The three-way junction of 4th Avenue and 96th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named St. Patrick’s Plaza by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Patricks Church is 150 feet away, and P.S./I.S. 104 the Fort Hamilton School is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge-95 St, is about a minute on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 30 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge-95 St
320 feet · 1 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
5 Av/95 St · B63
Within a walk
12 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & 96th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge-95 St, 320 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge-95 St R
    320 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/95 St, 300 feet away, for the B63.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/95 St B63
    300 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 4 Ave & 94 St 23 docks in all
    610 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 4th Avenue & Shore Road, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 9111 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 9602 4th Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    200 feet
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 December 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
70 feet above sea level

This corner is also named St. Patrick’s Plaza, a co-naming enacted on December 13, 1999 (Local Law 75 of 1999).

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 1926 and 1951.

Since 2014 at least 5 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on St. Patrick’s Plaza.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 4th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of 96th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 96th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 308845.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Fort Hamilton Triangle.

  1. Fort Hamilton War Memorial Obelisk, 1920
    470 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. St Patrick Catholic Academy School
    310 feet
  2. Adapt Community Network Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    340 feet
  3. Ms. Jenn's Little Achievers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    360 feet
Show all 6
  1. Ucp of NYC - William O'Connor School
    470 feet
  2. District 20 Pre-K Center at 369 93rd Street Pre-K center
    1,210 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 104 the Fort Hamilton School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Hamilton Triangle
    360 feet
  2. John J Carty Park
    780 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Hamilton Library
    440 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Patricks Church House of worship
    150 feet
  2. Bethel Presbyterian Reformed Church House of worship
    710 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 242 Fire station
    1,020 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    890 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,290 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 4th Avenue or 96th 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.