3rd Avenue & Butler Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and Butler Street is in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Wyckoff Community Center is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about seven minutes on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 20 places to eat. About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
4 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
3 Av/Douglass St · B37
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & Butler 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 seven minutes on foot.

  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union St R
    0.3 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 B D N Q 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/Douglass St, 290 feet away, for the B37.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Douglass St & 3 Ave 35 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 3rd Avenue & Hamilton Avenue, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    1,020 feet
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1,160 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
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
20 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 63 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

North side of Butler Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING HOTEL LOADING ZONE
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-9PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Butler Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 1 older adult center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Alonzo A. Daughtry Memorial Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    440 feet
  2. P.S. 133 William A. Butler School
    1,030 feet
  3. Le Paradis des Anges Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Thomas Greene Playground
    310 feet
  2. All is Well Community Garden - Wyckoff Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    520 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Douglass & Degraw Pool Swimming pool
    760 feet
  2. Wyckoff Community Center
    930 feet
  3. Older adult center at 280 Wyckoff Street Older adult center
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or Butler Street.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.