East 4th Street & Cortelyou Road

East 4th Street and Cortelyou Road meet at a four-way crossing in Kensington, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dome Playground is 1,200 feet away. The nearest subway, Ditmas Av, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them religious buildings, and six places to eat. About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1921 and 1937, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ditmas Av
1,190 feet · 5 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
1,010 feet
McDonald Av/Cortelyou Rd · B67, B69
Within a walk
9 places
5 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 4th Street & Cortelyou Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ditmas Av, 1,190 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ditmas Av F
    1,190 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. Church Av F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Inheritance: In Memory of American Glass” (2016) by Cara Lynch at the Ditmas Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is McDonald Av/Cortelyou Rd, 1,010 feet away, for the B67 and B69.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. McDonald Av/Cortelyou Rd B67, B69
    1,010 feet
    B67 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 3 St & Cortelyou Rd 14 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at 11th Avenue & 18th Street, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1 Cortelyou Road Gas station
    1,110 feet
  2. 581 Ocean Parkway Charging for electric cars, 13 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

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
44 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 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 1937.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and October 2019, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Cortelyou Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 4th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of East 4th Street

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 339313.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Shira's Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,060 feet
  2. P.S. 179 Kensington School
    1,170 feet
  3. J.H.S. 062 Ditmas School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dome Playground
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Gala Apple International Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,100 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Cortelyou Road 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.