Ridge Boulevard & 89th Street

Ridge Boulevard and 89th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The corner is also named Justice Arthur M. Schack 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. Adelphi Academy is 1,170 feet away. The nearest subway, 86 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
86 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
850 feet
3 Av/89 St · B37
Within a walk
9 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ridge Boulevard & 89th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 86 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 86 St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Bay Ridge-95 St R
    0.5 miles
    R

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Heydays” (2011) by Amy Bennett at the 86 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/89 St, 850 feet away, for the B37.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/89 St B37
    850 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Ridge Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ridge Blvd & 89 St 12 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway at 92nd Street & Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 9111 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 8501 5th Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

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

This corner is also named Justice Arthur M. Schack Way, a co-naming enacted on January 19, 2020 (Local Law 26 of 2020).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1923 and 1927.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Justice Arthur M. Schack Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of 89th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 89th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Ridge Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Ridge Boulevard

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

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 religious buildings

Schools and child care

  1. Tiny Tots Playhouse Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    640 feet
  2. P.S. 185 Walter Kassenbrock School
    690 feet
  3. Dimitrios & Georgia Kaloidis Parochial School of Greek Holy Cross Chuch School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
Show all 7
  1. Stepping Stones-The Next Step Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,120 feet
  2. D & G Kaloidis Parochial School
    1,140 feet
  3. Stepping Stones Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet
  4. Adelphi Academy School
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and three 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 89th Street or Ridge Boulevard.

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