East 4th Street & Avenue C

East 4th Street and Avenue C meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Avenue C Plaza is 950 feet away, and Palm Gardens Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation is 1,070 feet away. The nearest subway, Church Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Church Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
1,020 feet
McDonald Av/Avenue C · B67, B69
Within a walk
9 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 4th Street & Avenue C Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Church Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Church Av F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Ditmas Av F
    0.4 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is McDonald Av/Avenue C, 1,020 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McDonald Av/Avenue C B67, B69
    1,020 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ocean Pkwy & Ave C 16 docks in all
    590 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1 Cortelyou Road Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11218
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 12
City Council district
39
Police precinct
66
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kensington
Elevation
52 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1922 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 76 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2019 and June 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Avenue C

  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

North side of Avenue C

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Avenue C

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

West side of Avenue C

  • No stopping 6 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of East 4th Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of East 4th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of East 4th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 179 Kensington School
    420 feet
  2. Bnos Jerusalem D'Chasidei Belz School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet
  3. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. Bnos Yerushalayim School
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Avenue C Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    950 feet

Health care

  1. Palm Gardens Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing home or hospice
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue C or East 4th Street.

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