Ralph Avenue & Ditmas Avenue

Ralph Avenue and Ditmas Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nazareth Regional High School is 910 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd, is 190 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
5 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
190 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 & Ditmas Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd, 190 feet away, for the B47.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Clarendon Rd B47
    190 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 four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
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
16 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 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 between 1940 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of Ditmas Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

South side of Ditmas Avenue

  • Back-in parking only 2 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ralph Avenue

  • No stopping 1 sign NO STOPPING 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
    910 feet
  2. Ivy Hill Preparatory Charter School
    910 feet
  3. Nazareth Regional High School
    910 feet
Show all 4
  1. I.S. 285 Meyer Levin School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Harry Maze Playground
    1,080 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 58 Ambulance station
    1,160 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Pieter Wyckoff House Listed historic place
    240 feet
  2. Wyckoff House Museum Landmark
    330 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Good Food for Less Supermarket
    870 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ditmas Avenue or Ralph Avenue.

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