71st Street & Ridge Crest Terrace

The three-way junction of 71st Street and Ridge Crest Terrace is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. P.S. 102 the Bayview is 820 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bay Ridge Av/Colonial Rd, is 1,040 feet away for the B9, B64, X27 and X37, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them listed historic places, and two places to eat.

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71st Street & Ridge Crest Terrace Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Av/Colonial Rd, 1,040 feet away, for the B9, B64, X27 and X37.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Av/Colonial Rd B9, B64, X27, X37
    1,040 feet
    B9 B64 X27 X37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …
  2. B64 …
  3. X27 …
  4. X37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Colonial Rd & 71 St 14 docks in all
    280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway southbound at Ridge Boulevard & Shore Road Drive, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6737 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2019.

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
55 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1932.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Step Ahead Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  2. P.S. 102 the Bayview School
    820 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Louise Terrace/Colonial Road Historic District Listed historic place
    770 feet
  2. Bay Ridge Library
    1,050 feet
  3. Houses at 216-264 Ovington Avenue Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge Christ Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

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