7th Avenue & 76th Street

The three-way junction of 7th Avenue and 76th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Donald Richard Gavigan, Jr. 9/11 Memorial Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bay Ridge United Presbyterian Church is 350 feet away. The nearest subway, 77 St, is about ten minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along 7th Avenue.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
77 St
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
190 feet
7 Av Service Rd South/Bay Ridge Pkwy · B70
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
7th Avenue & 76th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 77 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. 77 St R
    0.5 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 7 Av Service Rd South/Bay Ridge Pkwy, 190 feet away, for the B70.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 7 Av Service Rd South/Bay Ridge Pkwy B70
    190 feet
    B70

Next buses at this stop

  1. B70 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 7th Avenue.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 6 Ave & 78 St 12 docks in all
    1,110 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at Fort Hamilton Parkway & Gowanus Expressway, 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
    0.7 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2023.

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
80 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Donald Richard Gavigan, Jr. 9/11 Memorial Way, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Donald Richard Gavigan, Jr. 9/11 Memorial Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 76th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 76th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. District 20 Pre-K Center at 7415 Fort Hamilton Parkway Pre-K center
    1,270 feet
  2. St. Ephraim School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McKinley Park
    630 feet
  2. McKinley Park Playground
    700 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge United Presbyterian Church House of worship
    350 feet
  2. St Ephrems Church House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles

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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 76th Street or 7th Avenue.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.