3rd Avenue & President Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and President Street is in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Dolly's Park is 210 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about three minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them gardens, and 37 places to eat. About 3,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 2022 and 2024, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & President Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Union St, 820 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. Union St R
    820 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, 170 feet away, for the B37.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

  • 66 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
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 3rd Avenue & Hamilton Avenue, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.4 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 seven crashes at this corner, the median for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2021

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
19 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,600 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 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of President Street

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of President Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Rivendell School Preschool
    100 feet
  2. Rivendell School
    360 feet
  3. The Little Brooklyn Pre-K Center at 305-307 Third Avenue Pre-K center
    550 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 372 -The Children's School
    730 feet
  2. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dolly's Park Garden
    210 feet
  2. Gil Hodges (Carroll Street Garden) Garden
    780 feet
  3. Thomas Greene Playground
    830 feet
Show all 5
  1. Garden of Union (Annie's Garden) Garden
    960 feet
  2. GreenSpace Native Plant Community Garden and Environmental Center Garden
    1,120 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Whole Foods Public space
    1,220 feet
  2. Public space at 363-365 Bond Street Public space
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public Bath No. 7 Listed historic place
    870 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Douglass & Degraw Pool Swimming pool
    1,110 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 places to eat and seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

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