8th Avenue & 44th Street

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and 44th Street is in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), Brooklyn, and is also named Charles A. Sferrazza Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Baptist Church is 470 feet away. The nearest subway, Fort Hamilton Pkwy, is about eight minutes on foot, for the D. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 38 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Fort Hamilton Pkwy
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · D
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
8 Av/44 St · B70
Within a walk
22 places
9 religious buildings, 6 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & 44th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy 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. 9 Av D
    0.4 miles
    D

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Gardens of Fort Hamilton Parkway Station” (2012) by Portia Munson at the Fort Hamilton Pkwy station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 8 Av/44 St, 110 feet away, for the B70.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 8 Av/44 St B70
    110 feet
    B70

Next buses at this stop

  1. B70 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 57 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 46 St & 7 Ave 21 docks in all
    0.3 miles

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
    0.4 miles
  2. 484 43rd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 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 seven crashes at this corner, the median for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2019
  • Turn calming, July 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11220
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 (East)-Borough Park (West)
Elevation
141 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Charles A. Sferrazza Way, a co-naming enacted on March 18, 2017 (Local Law 45 of 2017).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Charles A. Sferrazza Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 45 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and May 2023; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 44th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING WEDNESDAY 6AM-2PM

South side of 44th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING WEDNESDAY 6AM-2PM

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

West side of 8th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 303337, 306343 and 333650.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Chinese American Association Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    480 feet
  2. Pantomima Big Kids Care Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    740 feet
  3. P.S. 169 Sunset Park School
    750 feet
Show all 9
  1. Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  2. Tomer Dvora School - Site 2 School
    1,050 feet
  3. School Based Child Care School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,080 feet
  4. Childtime Childcare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,100 feet
  5. Enlightenment Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,120 feet
  6. Modern International Beauty School Trade or language school
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sunset Park
    850 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Alku & Alku Toinen Listed historic place
    400 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brooklyn Baptist Church House of worship
    470 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 4101 8th Avenue Older adult center
    820 feet
  2. Sunset Park Recreation Center
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and 32 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 44th 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.