3rd Avenue & Sackett Street

The four-way crossing of 3rd Avenue and Sackett Street is in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. GreenSpace Native Plant Community Garden and Environmental Center is 810 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, five of them gardens, and 38 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
1,020 feet · 4 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
170 feet
3 Av/Union St · B37
Within a walk
17 places
5 gardens, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & Sackett Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Union St, 1,020 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Union St R
    1,020 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/Union St, 170 feet away, for the B37.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue and Sackett Street.

  • 70 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Degraw St & 3 Ave 35 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 3rd Avenue & Hamilton Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2024.

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
18 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 2,200 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 144 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 49 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

North side of Sackett Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCKS LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-3PM

South side of Sackett Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 gardens
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Rivendell School Preschool
    620 feet
  2. Rivendell School
    880 feet
  3. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    890 feet
Show all 6
  1. The Little Brooklyn Pre-K Center at 305-307 Third Avenue Pre-K center
    1,070 feet
  2. Alonzo A. Daughtry Memorial Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet
  3. P.S. 372 -The Children's School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Thomas Greene Playground
    310 feet
  2. Dolly's Park Garden
    570 feet
  3. GreenSpace Native Plant Community Garden and Environmental Center Garden
    810 feet
Show all 6
  1. Garden of Union (Annie's Garden) Garden
    1,210 feet
  2. Gil Hodges (Carroll Street Garden) Garden
    1,300 feet
  3. All is Well Community Garden - Wyckoff Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public Bath No. 7 Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Douglass & Degraw Pool Swimming pool
    590 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    990 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and seven 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 Sackett 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.