7th Avenue & Bay Ridge Parkway

The four-way crossing of 7th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 1,884 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. McKinley Park Playground is 120 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bay Ridge Pkwy/7 Av, is 20 feet away for the B4 and B70, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them schools.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
20 feet
Bay Ridge Pkwy/7 Av · B4, B70
Within a walk
10 places
3 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
7th Avenue & Bay Ridge Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Pkwy/7 Av, 20 feet away, for the B4 and B70.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Pkwy/7 Av B4, B70
    20 feet
    B4 B70

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …
  2. B70 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Bay Ridge Parkway.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 6 Ave & 74 St 12 docks in all
    1,310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 802 65th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 1,884 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 451st most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 887 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on Bay Ridge Parkway1,004545
Southbound on 7th Avenue880342
Total1,884887

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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)
Bay Ridge
Elevation
84 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 70 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and July 2023; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 7th Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 7th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 9 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 10 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

North side of Bay Ridge Parkway

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Bay Ridge Parkway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. District 20 Pre-K Center at 7415 Fort Hamilton Parkway Pre-K center
    690 feet
  2. St. Ephraim School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    700 feet
  3. J.H.S. 259 William McKinley School
    1,130 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Ephrem Catholic Academy School
    1,150 feet
  2. P.S. 127 McKinley Park School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McKinley Park
    60 feet
  2. McKinley Park Playground
    120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge United Presbyterian Church House of worship
    480 feet
  2. St Ephrems Church House of worship
    700 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 7201 8th Avenue Older adult center
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. HLBK Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 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, 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 7th Avenue or Bay Ridge Parkway.

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