'Quatre Chemins' means 'four roads', the crossroads above the station.
The crossroads, a lieu-dit (named locality), lies on the old road to Flanders where Aubervilliers and Pantin meet; the district around it, astride both towns, bears the same name. In 1875 the canal de l'Ourcq and the railway divided Pantin into two districts, the Village and the Quatre-Chemins; residents of the latter asked in vain to become a separate commune.