Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Atlantic Avenue and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Adam Yauch Park is 50 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Atlantic Av, is 330 feet away for the B61, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, six of them day care or pre-K sites, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
140 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
330 feet
Columbia St/Atlantic Av · B61
Within a walk
19 places
6 day care or pre-K sites, 3 playgrounds and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Atlantic Av, 330 feet away, for the B61.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Atlantic Av B61
    330 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Atlantic Ave & Furman St 55 docks in all
    480 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 140 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2012
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11201
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
33 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
76 and 84 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 112 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 263 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1846 and 1879.

  1. 1st Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    570 feet
  2. St. Charles Orthopedic Hospital Designated landmark
    770 feet
  3. South Brooklyn Neighborhood Houses (Settlement House) Designated landmark
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 parks
  • 1 college
  • 1 dog run
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. MS Lam Montessori School
    300 feet
  2. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    490 feet
  3. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
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  1. Kinder Prep Childcare 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  2. Brooklyn Preschool of Science Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,020 feet
  3. St. Ann's Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,100 feet
  4. Kinder Prep Childcare and Enrichment Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,130 feet
  5. Grace Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Adam Yauch Park
    50 feet
  2. Van Voorhees Playground
    60 feet
  3. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    310 feet
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  1. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    470 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    560 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park Zone 6 Playground
    720 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    490 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Listed historic place
    960 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Grace Church Brooklyn Heights House of worship
    1,230 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 224 Fire station
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

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

Other places

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Ferry Landing
    1,010 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

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