3rd Avenue & 1st Street

The three-way junction of 3rd Avenue and 1st Street is in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) Central Power Station, one of three Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 400 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about five minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them schools, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
470 feet
3 Av/Carroll St · B37
Within a walk
10 places
3 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & 1st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Union St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. Union St R
    0.3 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “CommUnion” (1994) by Emmett Wigglesworth at the Union St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/Carroll St, 470 feet away, for the B37.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/Carroll St B37
    470 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

  • 50 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 Ave & Carroll St 27 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 3rd Avenue & Hamilton Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2023
  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11215
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,300 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 2022 and 2023.

Since 2014 at least 90 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

North side of 1st Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of 1st Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are three Individual Landmarks, and five buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as American Round Arch. They were mostly built in 1884.

  1. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) Central Power Station Designated landmark
    400 feet
  2. New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building Designated landmark
    600 feet
  3. Somers Brothers Tinware Factory, Corner Pavilion Designated landmark
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 park
  • 1 public space
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. The Little Brooklyn Pre-K Center at 305-307 Third Avenue Pre-K center
    170 feet
  2. Rivendell School Preschool
    590 feet
  3. P.S. 372 -The Children's School
    680 feet
Show all 5
  1. Rivendell School
    740 feet
  2. Al-Madinah School
    900 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dolly's Park Garden
    820 feet
  2. Gil Hodges (Carroll Street Garden) Garden
    860 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Whole Foods Public space
    610 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    750 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and three food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 1st Street or 3rd Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.