3rd Avenue & Carroll Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and Carroll 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. P.S. 372 -The Children's School is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about four minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 30 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
3 Av/Carroll St · B37
Within a walk
17 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 gardens and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & Carroll Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Union St, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Union St R
    1,080 feet
    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, 120 feet away, for the B37.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

  • 51 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

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

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,400 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 2024.

Since 2014 at least 196 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Carroll Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Carroll Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Classical, and built between 1901 and 1904.

  1. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) Central Power Station Designated landmark
    640 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 public spaces
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Rivendell School Preschool
    240 feet
  2. The Little Brooklyn Pre-K Center at 305-307 Third Avenue Pre-K center
    290 feet
  3. Rivendell School
    400 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 372 -The Children's School
    480 feet
  2. Smith Street Workshop Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet
  3. Al-Madinah School
    1,240 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dolly's Park Garden
    470 feet
  2. Gil Hodges (Carroll Street Garden) Garden
    520 feet
  3. Thomas Greene Playground
    1,090 feet
Show all 4
  1. Garden of Union (Annie's Garden) Garden
    1,230 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Whole Foods Public space
    960 feet
  2. Public space at 363-365 Bond Street Public space
    970 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 32 Ambulance station
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public Bath No. 7 Listed historic place
    1,130 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    1,100 feet
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Avenue or Carroll 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.