7th Avenue & 86th Street

The four-way crossing of 7th Avenue and 86th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named Patrolman David Guttenberg Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 35 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,670 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Hamilton Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is 1,310 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about ten minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are six public places and six places to eat.

Safety record
30 hurt
35 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
86 St/7 Av · B1, X28, X38
Within a walk
6 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 dog run and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
7th Avenue & 86th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. 86 St R
    0.5 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Heydays” (2011) by Amy Bennett at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 86 St/7 Av, 170 feet away, for the B1, X28 and X38.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 86 St/7 Av B1, X28, X38 · Shelter
    170 feet
    B1 X28 X38
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B1 …
  2. X28 …
  3. X38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

  • 5 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy & 85 St 14 docks in all
    0.3 miles

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. 8521 7th Avenue Gas station
    at this corner
  2. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 35 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 30 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2020

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,670 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 106th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 172 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
47 and 50 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bay Ridge
Elevation
77 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Patrolman David Guttenberg Way, a co-naming enacted on June 24, 2017 (Local Law 110 of 2017).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 800 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 1938.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Patrolman David Guttenberg Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 77 signs on these blocks
  • 17 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and July 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 7th Avenue

  • Ambulances only 2 signs AMBULANCE ONLY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 21 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of 86th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated four lampposts.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 dog run
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. School of Technology, Arts, and Research School
    230 feet
  2. Redeemer-St. John's Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dyker Beach Park
    110 feet
  2. Dog Run in Dyker Beach Park Dog run
    310 feet

Health care

  1. Hamilton Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,310 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 7th Avenue or 86th Street.

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