3rd Street & Chauncey Avenue

The three-way junction of 3rd Street and Chauncey Avenue is in Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Commodore Barry Pool is 920 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Navy St/Sands St, is 700 feet away for the B62, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them swimming pools, and one place to eat. Within 820 feet are 13 homes, mostly built in 1997, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
700 feet
Navy St/Sands St · B62
Within a walk
5 places
2 swimming pools, 1 community center and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
3rd Street & Chauncey Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Navy St/Sands St, 700 feet away, for the B62.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Navy St/Sands St B62
    700 feet
    B62

Next buses at this stop

  1. B62 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Sands St Gate 19 docks in all
    510 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 168 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 152 Ashland Place Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11205
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Elevation
6 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

Within 820 feet of this corner are 13 homes, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1997.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and built between 1840 and 1851.

  1. Dry Dock Number 1 Designated landmark
    770 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 swimming pools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 garden
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pulse Garden - Farragut Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    990 feet
  2. Commodore Barry Park
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Commodore Barry Pool Swimming pool
    920 feet
  2. Community center at Farragut Community center
    940 feet
  3. Commodore Barry Park Wading Pool Swimming pool
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Wegmans Supermarket
    450 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Street or Chauncey Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYCHA, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.