Ovington Avenue & Ridge Boulevard

Ovington Avenue and Ridge Boulevard meet at a three-way junction in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 38 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Bay Ridge Library is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge Av, is about seven minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 32 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge Av
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Bay Ridge Av/Ridge Blvd · B9, B64
Within a walk
12 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ovington Avenue & Ridge Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge Av R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Bay Ridge
1 line
  1. R …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Strata” (2017) by Katy Fischer at the Bay Ridge Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Av/Ridge Blvd, 530 feet away, for the B9 and B64.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Av/Ridge Blvd B9, B64
    530 feet
    B9 B64

Next buses at this stop

  1. B9 …
  2. B64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Ridge Boulevard.

  • 22 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 70 St & Ridge Blvd 12 docks in all
    240 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway southbound at Ridge Boulevard & Shore Road Drive, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 6737 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 38 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,849th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 13 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
71 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1932.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2014 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Ovington Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of Ovington Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Ridge Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Step Ahead Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    250 feet
  2. P.S. 102 the Bayview School
    510 feet
  3. Gateway City Academy School
    1,010 feet
Show all 5
  1. Bay One Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  2. Guild for Exceptional Children Preschool
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Houses at 216-264 Ovington Avenue Listed historic place
    480 feet
  2. Bay Ridge Library
    740 feet
  3. Louise Terrace/Colonial Road Historic District Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge Christ Church House of worship
    870 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SuperFresh Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and 16 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 of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ovington Avenue or Ridge Boulevard.

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