Bay Ridge Avenue & 12th Avenue

Bay Ridge Avenue and 12th Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Frederick I. Ergang Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Regina Pacis Shrine Church is 970 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bay Ridge Av/12 Av, is 110 feet away for the B64. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and one place to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Bay Ridge Av/12 Av · B64
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bay Ridge Avenue & 12th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Av/12 Av, 110 feet away, for the B64.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Av/12 Av B64
    110 feet
    B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1302 65th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 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 January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11219
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
38 and 43 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Dyker Heights
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

This corner carries two co-namings: Frederick I. Ergang Way (Local Law 8 of 2004, enacted on May 5, 2004) and Aileen Hernandez Way (Local Law 26 of 2020, enacted on January 19, 2020).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on each of these co-names.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 12th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 12th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Bay Ridge Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Bay Ridge Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. Bay Ridge Ave. Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    180 feet
  2. P.S. 176 Ovington School
    380 feet
  3. Worldtots Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    820 feet
Show all 6
  1. Nysarc - Ahrc Middle/High School
    930 feet
  2. World of Wonders Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,240 feet
  3. The Christa McAuliffe School\I.S. 187 School
    1,280 feet

Health care

  1. Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center Nursing home or hospice
    790 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Regina Pacis Shrine Church House of worship
    970 feet
  2. Coptic Orthodox Church of St George House of worship
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SuperFresh Supermarket
    1,050 feet
  2. Scaturro Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. HLBK Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,090 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and 11 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Avenue or Bay Ridge Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.