3rd Avenue & Warren Street

The three-way junction of 3rd Avenue and Warren Street is in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Wyckoff Gardens development. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Temple of Restoration is 990 feet away. The nearest subway, Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q and R. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
3 Av/Warren St · B37
Within a walk
17 places
5 religious buildings, 3 gardens and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Avenue & Warren Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 9 lines at the nearest station
  1. Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R
    0.3 miles
    2 3 4 5 B D N Q R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
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Outbound
4 lines
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Southbound
5 lines
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Also within a walk

  1. Union St R
    0.4 miles
    R
  2. Nevins St 2, 3, 4, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 3 4 5

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Hook (Archean Reach), Line (Sea House), and Sinker (Mined Swell),” (2004) by George Trakas (in collaboration with di Domenico + Partners) at the Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/Warren St, 40 feet away, for the B37.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/Warren St B37
    40 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 3rd Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wyckoff St & 3 Ave 22 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    500 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
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78 and 84 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Wyckoff Gardens development.

Since 2014 at least 58 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and November 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

North side of Warren Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Warren Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Seventeen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1873 and 1884.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 3 gardens
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Alonzo A. Daughtry Memorial Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    430 feet
  2. Le Paradis des Anges Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    840 feet
  3. P.S. 133 William A. Butler School
    1,180 feet
Show all 5
  1. Brooklyn High School of the Arts School
    1,250 feet
  2. The Exploratory School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. All is Well Community Garden - Wyckoff Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    40 feet
  2. Thomas Greene Playground
    830 feet
  3. Warren-St.Marks Community Garden
    1,040 feet
Show all 4
  1. David Foulke Memorial Garden
    1,060 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth El Baptist Church House of worship
    810 feet
  2. Temple of Restoration House of worship
    990 feet

Community centers and public services

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

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Whole Foods Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Atlantic Terminal Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

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