3rd Avenue & Douglass Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and Douglass Street is in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Douglass & Degraw Pool is 500 feet away, and Dolly's Park is 1,100 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about six minutes on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 29 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & Douglass 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 six 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
    0.5 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, 30 feet away, for the B37.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

  • 43 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
    50 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
    1,280 feet
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  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 four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

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
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,900 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 2006 and 2024.

Since 2014 at least 119 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 82 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and May 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 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

North side of Douglass Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • 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 9AM-9PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Douglass Street

  • No parking 7 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

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Alonzo A. Daughtry Memorial Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
  2. Rivendell School Preschool
    1,140 feet
  3. P.S. 133 William A. Butler School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Thomas Greene Playground
    50 feet
  2. All is Well Community Garden - Wyckoff Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    790 feet
  3. Dolly's Park Garden
    1,100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Douglass & Degraw Pool Swimming pool
    500 feet
  2. Wyckoff Community Center
    1,180 feet
  3. Older adult center at 280 Wyckoff Street Older adult center
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and four 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 Douglass 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.