4th Avenue & Shore Road

The six-way junction of 4th Avenue and Shore Road is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. John Paul Jones Park is 80 feet away, and Shore Park and Parkway is 80 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge-95 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them parks, and seven places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
15 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge-95 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
140 feet
Shore Rd/4 Av · B16, B37
Within a walk
6 places
3 parks, 1 monument or memorial and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
4th Avenue & Shore Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge-95 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge-95 St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Shore Rd/4 Av, 140 feet away, for the B16 and B37.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Shore Rd/4 Av B16, B37
    140 feet
    B16 B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …
  2. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Shore Road.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Shore Rd & 4 Ave 12 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

A ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound starts at this corner.

  1. 9111 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 9602 4th Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
47
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bay Ridge
Elevation
38 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • Four of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 102 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2015 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 4th Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 4th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Shore Road

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in John Paul Jones Park.

  1. John N. LaCorte Memorial wall by Albino Manca, 2004
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 1 monument or memorial
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Fontbonne Hall Academy School
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. John Paul Jones Park
    80 feet
  2. Shore Park and Parkway Park
    80 feet
  3. John J Carty Park
    1,000 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dover Patrol Monument Monument or memorial
    200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Fort Hamilton Senior Center Older adult center
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and one food store.

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, Belt Parkway or Shore Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.