5th Avenue & Carroll Street

The four-way crossing of 5th Avenue and Carroll Street is in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Public Bath No. 7 stands 750 feet away, and Lincoln-Berkeley Community Garden is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about four minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them gardens, and 65 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
1,130 feet · 4 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
5 Av/Garfield Pl · B63
Within a walk
15 places
5 gardens, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
5th Avenue & Carroll Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Union St, 1,130 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  1. Union St R
    1,130 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 5 Av/Garfield Pl, 150 feet away, for the B63.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/Garfield Pl B63
    150 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 5th Avenue.

  • 69 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carroll St & 5 Ave 27 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway eastbound at 17th Street & Prospect Expressway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.8 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 ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2022

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)
Park Slope
Elevation
57 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 47 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 5th Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MAY-OCTOBER SATURDAY 2PM-10PM

West side of 5th Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MAY-OCTOBER SATURDAY 2PM-10PM

North side of Carroll Street

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Carroll Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM SATURDAY 11AM-10PM
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 306606 and 310872.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and 14 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Altered Italianate. They were mostly built between 1869 and 1891.

  1. Public Bath No. 7 Designated landmark
    750 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 gardens
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Sunflower Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    140 feet
  2. The Berkley Carroll Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,000 feet
  3. Strong Place for Hope Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
Show all 5
  1. Juguemos a Cantar Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  2. P.S. 372 -The Children's School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Green Space at President Street Garden
    310 feet
  2. Garden of Union (Annie's Garden) Garden
    1,020 feet
  3. Gil Hodges (Carroll Street Garden) Garden
    1,040 feet
Show all 7
  1. Washington Park
    1,060 feet
  2. J.J. Byrne Playground
    1,140 feet
  3. Lincoln-Berkeley Community Garden
    1,140 feet
  4. GreenSpace Native Plant Community Garden and Environmental Center Garden
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Francis Xavier Church House of worship
    910 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    460 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    470 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Park Slope Food Coop Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 65 places to eat and 11 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 5th Avenue or Carroll 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.