74th Street & 10th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 74th Street and 10th Avenue is in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Ephrem Catholic Academy is 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bay Ridge Pkwy/10 Av, is 370 feet away for the B4, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites.

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74th Street & 10th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Pkwy/10 Av, 370 feet away, for the B4.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Pkwy/10 Av B4
    370 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 10th Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
38
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Dyker Heights
Elevation
87 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2015 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 10th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 10th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of 74th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 74th Street

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. St Ephrem Catholic Academy School
    570 feet
  2. St. Ephraim School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    700 feet
  3. J.H.S. 259 William McKinley School
    740 feet
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  1. District 20 Pre-K Center at 7415 Fort Hamilton Parkway Pre-K center
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McKinley Park
    870 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Ephrems Church House of worship
    700 feet
  2. Bethany Lutheran Church House of worship
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. HLBK Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

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