73rd Street & Ridge Boulevard

The four-way crossing of 73rd Street and Ridge Boulevard is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Christ Church Lane by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bay Ridge Library is 120 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about ten minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
1,090 feet
3 Av/72 St · B37
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
73rd Street & Ridge Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    0.5 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 77 St R
    0.5 miles
    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 3 Av/72 St, 1,090 feet away, for the B37.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/72 St B37 · Shelter
    1,090 feet
    B37
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Ridge Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 73 St & Ridge Blvd 16 docks in all
    40 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 mile
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
73 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Christ Church Lane, a co-naming enacted on October 2, 2012 (Local Law 48 of 2012).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1926 and 1937.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Christ Church Lane.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

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

North side of 73rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 73rd Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Ridge Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Ridge Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 102 the Bayview School
    460 feet
  2. Step Ahead Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    480 feet
  3. Bay One Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bay Ridge Library
    120 feet
  2. Houses at 216-264 Ovington Avenue Listed historic place
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge Christ Church House of worship
    170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,240 feet
  2. SuperFresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 73rd Street or Ridge Boulevard.

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