78th Street & Ridge Boulevard

The four-way crossing of 78th Street and Ridge Boulevard is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Joanne Seminara Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 354 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. St Marys Antiochian Orthodox Church is 930 feet away, and Bay Ridge Christ Church is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, 77 St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
77 St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
78 St/Ridge Blvd · B4
Within a walk
5 places
3 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
78th Street & Ridge Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 77 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 77 St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 78 St/Ridge Blvd, 110 feet away, for the B4.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 78 St/Ridge Blvd B4
    110 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Ridge Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 78 St & Ridge Blvd 12 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, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6737 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.8 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
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 354 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,390th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 208 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
51 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Joanne Seminara Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

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 1920 and 1936.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Joanne Seminara Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of 78th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 78th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Ridge Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Ridge Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Tutor Time Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    860 feet
  2. Bay Ridge Prep School
    960 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Union Church of Bay Ridge Listed historic place
    490 feet
  2. St Marys Antiochian Orthodox Church House of worship
    930 feet
  3. Bay Ridge Christ Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and five 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 78th Street or Ridge Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.