5th Avenue & 66th Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and 66th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Leif Ericson Park is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about six minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them religious buildings, and 22 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along 5th Avenue.

Safety record
12 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
5 Av/66 St · B63
Within a walk
9 places
5 religious buildings, 2 parks and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & 66th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    0.3 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 59 St N, R
    0.4 miles
    N 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 5 Av/66 St, 110 feet away, for the B63.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/66 St B63
    110 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 5th Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 5 Ave & 67 St 20 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 3rd Avenue & 65th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6401 4th Avenue Gas station
    1,280 feet
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,240 feet
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 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, April 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11220
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
47
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bay Ridge
Elevation
71 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 102 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

East side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 5th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 66th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 66th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Leif Ericson Park.

  1. Leiv Eiriksson Stele by August Werner, 1939
    490 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Leif Ericson Park
    40 feet
  2. Millennium Playground
    90 feet
  3. Shore Park and Parkway Park
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Salem Lutheran Church House of worship
    450 feet
  2. Bay Ridge Baptist Church House of worship
    920 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Pioneer Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and 21 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or 66th Street.

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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.