5th Avenue & 4th Avenue

The five-way junction of 5th Avenue and 4th Avenue is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Mary Nolan’s 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. Fort Hamilton Library is 280 feet away, and the Engine 242 firehouse is 850 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 32 places to eat.

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5th Avenue & 4th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge-95 St, 150 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge-95 St R
    150 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 86 St R
    0.5 miles
    R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/95 St, 130 feet away, for the B63.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 29 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
    450 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway at 92nd Street & Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 9111 4th Avenue Gas station
    1,270 feet
  2. 9602 4th Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    360 feet
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2023

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 Mary Nolan’s Way, a co-naming enacted on July 20, 2024 (Local Law 81 of 2024).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Mary Nolan’s Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 51 signs on these blocks
  • 20 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and January 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 4th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

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

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 5th Avenue

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 308845 and 319903.

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
    310 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. Adapt Community Network Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    180 feet
  2. Ms. Jenn's Little Achievers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    190 feet
  3. Ucp of NYC - William O'Connor School
    300 feet
Show all 6
  1. St Patrick Catholic Academy School
    480 feet
  2. District 20 Pre-K Center at 369 93rd Street Pre-K center
    1,040 feet
  3. P.S./I.S. 104 the Fort Hamilton School
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fort Hamilton Triangle
    200 feet
  2. John J Carty Park
    620 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Hamilton Library
    280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Patricks Church House of worship
    230 feet
  2. Bethel Presbyterian Reformed Church House of worship
    540 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 242 Fire station
    850 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    1,060 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,160 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and 11 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:

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.