5th Street & Chauncey Avenue

The four-way crossing of 5th 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 Park Wading Pool is 540 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Flushing Av/Cumberland St, is 960 feet away for the B57 and B69, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them swimming pools, and four places to eat.

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5th Street & Chauncey Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Flushing Av/Cumberland St, 960 feet away, for the B57 and B69.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Flushing Av/Cumberland St B57, B69
    960 feet
    B57 B69

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …
  2. B69 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 5 St & Market St 39 docks in all
    840 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Navy Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 168 Flushing Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 15 Washington Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

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

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1942.

Trees

NYC Parks records 27 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Commodore Barry Park.

  1. Commodore John Barry Stele, 1996
    440 feet

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 swimming pools
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Oxport Playground
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Commodore Barry Pool Swimming pool
    480 feet
  2. Commodore Barry Park Wading Pool Swimming pool
    540 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Wegmans Supermarket
    830 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

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