Fort Hamilton Parkway & Bay Ridge Parkway

Fort Hamilton Parkway and Bay Ridge Parkway meet at a four-way crossing in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. The corner is also named St. Ephrem’s Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2026, 2,075 red-light camera tickets were recorded here through July 26. St Ephrems Church is 220 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bay Ridge Pkwy/Fort Hamilton Pkwy, is 40 feet away for the B4. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them schools, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
24 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
950 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Bay Ridge Pkwy/Fort Hamilton Pkwy · B4
Within a walk
9 places
3 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Fort Hamilton Parkway & Bay Ridge Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Pkwy/Fort Hamilton Pkwy, 40 feet away, for the B4.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Pkwy/Fort Hamilton Pkwy B4
    40 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bay Ridge Parkway.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 6 Ave & 74 St 12 docks in all
    0.3 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 950 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 802 65th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2020
  • Turn calming, March 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 2,075 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner.

Red-light camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket2026 so far
Westbound on Bay Ridge Parkway1,567
Northbound on Fort Hamilton Parkway508
Total2,075

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11228
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
38
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Dyker Heights
Elevation
94 feet above sea level

This corner is also named St. Ephrem’s Way, a co-naming enacted on January 19, 2020 (Local Law 26 of 2020).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 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 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 92 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on St. Ephrem’s Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 42 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and April 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bay Ridge Parkway

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Bay Ridge Parkway

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Fort Hamilton Parkway

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Fort Hamilton Parkway

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 3PM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. District 20 Pre-K Center at 7415 Fort Hamilton Parkway Pre-K center
    210 feet
  2. St. Ephraim School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    220 feet
  3. J.H.S. 259 William McKinley School
    650 feet
Show all 5
  1. St Ephrem Catholic Academy School
    670 feet
  2. P.S. 127 McKinley Park School
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McKinley Park
    60 feet
  2. McKinley Park Playground
    370 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Ephrems Church House of worship
    220 feet
  2. Bay Ridge United Presbyterian Church House of worship
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. HLBK Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and three 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 nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bay Ridge Parkway or Fort Hamilton Parkway.

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