Shore Road & 97th Street

Shore Road and 97th Street meet at a three-way junction in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The corner is also named FDNY Paramedic Peter L. Bushey Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fontbonne Hall Academy is 660 feet away. The nearest subway, Bay Ridge-95 St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and two places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bay Ridge-95 St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Shore Rd/97 St · B16, X27, X37
Within a walk
3 places
1 park, 1 playground and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Shore Road & 97th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bay Ridge-95 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Bay Ridge-95 St R
    0.5 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Shore Rd/97 St, 80 feet away, for the B16, X27 and X37.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Shore Rd/97 St B16, X27, X37
    80 feet
    B16 X27 X37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B16 …
  2. X27 …
  3. X37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Shore Road.

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Shore Rd & 97 St 12 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at 4th Avenue & Shore Road, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 9111 4th Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 9602 4th Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
58 feet above sea level

This corner is also named FDNY Paramedic Peter L. Bushey Way, a co-naming enacted on January 18, 2025 (Local Law 10 of 2025).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1935 and 1958.

Trees

NYC Parks records 85 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on FDNY Paramedic Peter L. Bushey Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 97th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 97th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of Shore Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. They were built between 1847 and 1929.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Fontbonne Hall Academy School
    660 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Shore Park and Parkway Park
    80 feet
  2. Vinland Playground
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Met Fresh Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 97th Street or Shore Road.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.