8th Avenue & 43rd Street

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and 43rd Street is in Sunset Park (Central), Brooklyn, and is also named Marlyn Carmen Garcia Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 169 Sunset Park is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, 9 Av, is about eight minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
9 Av
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
8 Av/43 St · B70
Within a walk
20 places
8 religious buildings, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & 43rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 9 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 9 Av D
    0.4 miles
    D

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. D …
Southbound
1 line
  1. D …

Also within a walk

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy D
    0.4 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Bees for Sunset Park” (2012) by Christopher Russell at the 9 Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 8 Av/43 St, 120 feet away, for the B70.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 8 Av/43 St B70
    120 feet
    B70

Next buses at this stop

  1. B70 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 60 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 7 Ave & 41 St 25 docks in all
    1,260 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4302 Fort Hamilton Parkway Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 484 43rd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2019
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11232
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
38
Police precinct
66 and 72 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sunset Park (Central)
Elevation
133 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Marlyn Carmen Garcia Way, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1921 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Marlyn Carmen Garcia Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 43rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 43rd Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of 8th Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY

West side of 8th Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306343 and 333650.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Chinese American Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    220 feet
  2. Pantomima Big Kids Care Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    480 feet
  3. P.S. 169 Sunset Park School
    740 feet
Show all 8
  1. Childtime Childcare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    840 feet
  2. Enlightenment Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet
  3. Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
  4. Sunny Skies Pre-School # 2 Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,280 feet
  5. Tomer Dvora School - Site 2 School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sunset Park
    840 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Alku & Alku Toinen Listed historic place
    300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brooklyn Baptist Church House of worship
    510 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 4101 8th Avenue Older adult center
    560 feet
  2. Sunset Park Recreation Center
    980 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and 28 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 43rd Street or 8th Avenue.

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