3rd Avenue & 3rd Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street is in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 25 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 606 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building, one of three Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 100 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
11 hurt
25 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
3 Av/3 St · B37, B103
Within a walk
9 places
3 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 4 Av-9 St F, G, R
    0.4 miles
    F G 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/3 St, 70 feet away, for the B37 and B103.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/3 St B37, B103
    70 feet
    B37 B103

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …
  2. B103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 3 St & 3 Ave 79 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 3rd Avenue & Hamilton Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 25 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 11 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 606 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,068th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 481 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Southbound on 3rd Avenue423416
Westbound on 3rd Street18365
Total606481

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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 50 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1901.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Kentucky coffeetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 50 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2014 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY

North side of 3rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No stopping 8 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of 3rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No stopping 11 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

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. New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building Designated landmark
    100 feet
  2. Somers Brothers Tinware Factory, Corner Pavilion Designated landmark
    110 feet
  3. Somers Brothers Tinware Factory, 3rd Avenue Wing Designated landmark
    160 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Al-Madinah School
    370 feet
  2. The Little Brooklyn Pre-K Center at 305-307 Third Avenue Pre-K center
    690 feet
  3. Rivendell School Preschool
    1,110 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 372 -The Children's School
    1,200 feet
  2. Rivendell School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Washington Park
    820 feet
  2. Washington Skate Park
    1,050 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Whole Foods Public space
    90 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    240 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 places to eat and two food stores.

Nearby corners

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

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

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