Ralph Avenue & East 64th Street

Ralph Avenue and East 64th Street meet at a three-way junction in Flatlands, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Peter W. Piccininni Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 1,250 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Mill Basin Library is 490 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/Avenue M, is 260 feet away for the B47, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and 16 places to eat.

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Ralph Avenue & East 64th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Avenue M, 260 feet away, for the B47.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Avenue M B47
    260 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 1.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 2317 Ralph Avenue Gas station
    290 feet
  2. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    1 mile

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people 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

In 2025, 1,250 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 643rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 630 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
46
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Peter W. Piccininni Way, a co-naming enacted on August 10, 2015 (Local Law 76 of 2015).

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 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 1920 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Peter W. Piccininni Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2018 and December 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Ralph Avenue (west side).

East side of Ralph Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8AM-9:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 332298 and 340489.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Kidz Korner Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    730 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hickman Playground
    1,220 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Mill Basin Library
    490 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mary Queen Heaven Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 323 Fire station
    630 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    670 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    150 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    710 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Georgetowne Shopping Center Shopping center
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and seven 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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