3rd Avenue & 7th Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and 7th Street is in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn, and is also named Andreas Stylianou Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The Engine 239 firehouse is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, 4 Av-9 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the F, G and R. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
4 Av-9 St
1,270 feet · 5 min on foot · F, G, R
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
3 Av/8 St · B37, B103
Within a walk
8 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & 7th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 4 Av-9 St, 1,270 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines at the nearest station
  1. 4 Av-9 St F, G, R
    1,270 feet
    F G R

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
3 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
  3. R …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/8 St, 300 feet away, for the B37 and B103.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/8 St B37, B103
    300 feet
    B37 B103

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …
  2. B103 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

  • 28 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 7 St & 3 Ave 24 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 3rd Avenue & Hamilton Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 668 3rd Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 266 13th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2019

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
17 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Andreas Stylianou Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Andreas Stylianou Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of 7th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-5PM

South side of 7th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-6PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 public space

Schools and child care

  1. Al-Madinah School
    770 feet
  2. The Maurice Sendak Community School
    1,020 feet
  3. Let's Play and Learn Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,160 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Whole Foods Public space
    700 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. 4th Avenue Station (IND) Listed historic place
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Thomas Aquinas Church Park Slope House of worship
    1,180 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 239 Fire station
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    920 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or 7th Street.

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