Ralph Avenue & Canarsie Lane

Ralph Avenue and Canarsie Lane meet at a three-way junction in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Ivy Hill Preparatory Charter School is 1,050 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd, is 320 feet away for the B47, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them schools, and five places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd · B47
Within a walk
10 places
4 schools, 2 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ralph Avenue & Canarsie Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd, 320 feet away, for the B47.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd B47
    320 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 401 East 80th Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 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, June 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, May 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
42 and 45 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to five travel lanes

Homes

About 200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2014 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Canarsie Lane

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 2AM-5AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Flemish Medieval Survival, and built in 1652.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 museum
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Birch Family Services - Nazareth Ctr School
    1,050 feet
  2. Ivy Hill Preparatory Charter School
    1,050 feet
  3. Nazareth Regional High School
    1,050 feet
Show all 4
  1. I.S. 285 Meyer Levin School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Harry Maze Playground
    1,220 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 58 Ambulance station
    1,020 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pieter Wyckoff House Listed historic place
    380 feet
  2. Wyckoff House Museum Landmark
    470 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Good Food for Less Supermarket
    730 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Canarsie Lane or Ralph Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.