Fort Hamilton Parkway & 97th Street

Fort Hamilton Parkway and 97th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Joe Imbriale Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Patricks Church is 490 feet away, and John Paul Jones Park is 1,280 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge-95 St, is about four minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them parks, and 13 places to eat.

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Fort Hamilton Parkway & 97th Street Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge-95 St, 1,130 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge-95 St R
    1,130 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fort Hamilton Pkwy/Marine Av, 270 feet away, for the B8.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy/Marine Av B8
    270 feet
    B8

Next buses at this stop

  1. B8 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Fort Hamilton Parkway.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Fort Hamilton Pkwy & 95 St 16 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway at Gowanus Expressway & John Warren Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 579 92nd Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 9602 4th Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    770 feet
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11209
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
47
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bay Ridge
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Joe Imbriale Corner, a co-naming enacted on October 20, 2003 (Local Law 62 of 2003).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1957.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Joe Imbriale Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and August 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Fort Hamilton Parkway

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. St Patrick Catholic Academy School
    500 feet
  2. Adapt Community Network Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    810 feet
  3. Ucp of NYC - William O'Connor School
    830 feet
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  1. Ms. Jenn's Little Achievers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. John J Carty Park
    30 feet
  2. Fort Hamilton Triangle
    1,170 feet
  3. John Paul Jones Park
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Fort Hamilton Library
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Patricks Church House of worship
    490 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Fort Hamilton Senior Center Older adult center
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and six 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

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