5th Avenue & 79th Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and 79th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named John and Dorothy Maguire Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Our Saviour Luth is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, 77 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
77 St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
5 Av/80 St · B63
Within a walk
6 places
3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 religious buildings, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & 79th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 77 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 77 St 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. 86 St R
    0.5 miles
    R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/80 St, 190 feet away, for the B63.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/80 St B63
    190 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 79 St & 5 Ave 16 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at Fort Hamilton Parkway & Gowanus Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 8202 7th Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2022

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
67 feet above sea level

This corner is also named John and Dorothy Maguire Way, a co-naming enacted on December 17, 2013 (Local Law 131 of 2013).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John and Dorothy Maguire Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 5th Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of 5th Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of 79th Street

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

South side of 79th Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306842 and 309323.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings

Schools and child care

  1. Grace Lutheran Church Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  2. Bambi Day Care I V School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  3. Ms. Jenn's Little Achievers II Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Saviour Luth House of worship
    930 feet
  2. Bay Ridge Jewish Center House of worship
    1,040 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    80 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    380 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Foodmarkets Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    1,130 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 22 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or 79th 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.