4th Avenue & Ovington Avenue

The four-way crossing of 4th Avenue and Ovington Avenue is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bethlehem Lutheran Church is 110 feet away, and Bay Ridge United Methodist Church is 1,040 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about two minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 62 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
410 feet · 2 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
4 Av/Bay Ridge Av · B9
Within a walk
15 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & Ovington Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge Av, 410 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    410 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
    0.3 miles
    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, 370 feet away, for the B9.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 32 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
    370 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
    890 feet
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
87 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Corner, a co-naming enacted on October 20, 2003 (Local Law 62 of 2003).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 54 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and March 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Ovington Avenue (south side).

East side of 4th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 2PM-7PM SATURDAY 8:30AM-7PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-2PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 4th Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Ovington Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 301965, 312394, 332459 and 335090.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. P.S./I.S. 30 Mary White Ovington School
    150 feet
  2. Lutheran Elem School of Bay Ridge School
    470 feet
  3. Bay Ridge Prep School 2 School
    970 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bay One Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  2. High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Shore Park and Parkway Park
    1,230 feet
  2. Leif Ericson Park
    1,300 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 216-264 Ovington Avenue Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bethlehem Lutheran Church House of worship
    110 feet
  2. Bay Ridge United Methodist Church Listed historic place
    1,040 feet
  3. Bay Ridge Baptist Church House of worship
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    900 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,100 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 62 places to eat and 27 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 4th Avenue or Ovington Avenue.

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.