Baltic Street & Bond Street

Baltic Street and Bond Street meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Gowanus development. The corner is also named Nicholas Heyward Sr. Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 440 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about six minutes on foot, for the F and G.

Safety record
3 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
Bergen St/Bond St · B65
Within a walk
12 places
3 playgrounds, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Baltic Street & Bond Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts A, C, G
    0.4 miles
    A C G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bergen St/Bond St, 900 feet away, for the B65.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St/Bond St B65
    900 feet
    B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Baltic Street and Bond Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bond St & Bergen St 27 docks in all
    760 feet

By car

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

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    3 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.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
76
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
Elevation
9 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Nicholas Heyward Sr. Place, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1965.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Nicholas Heyward Sr. Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2015 and January 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Baltic Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 9AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Baltic Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Bond Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Bond Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 132 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1869 and 1872.

  1. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Designated landmark
    440 feet
  2. Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station Designated landmark
    450 feet
  3. Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Gate House Designated landmark
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Metrokids Cradle (Brooklyn) Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    860 feet
  2. New Dawn Charter High School
    1,140 feet
  3. Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet
Show all 4
  1. Cobble Hill School of American Studies School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park
    520 feet
  2. Boerum Park Playground
    920 feet
  3. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park Playground
    990 feet
Show all 6
  1. Boerum Park
    1,000 feet
  2. Thomas Greene Playground
    1,240 feet
  3. David Foulke Memorial Garden
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boerum Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    1,040 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gowanus Community Center
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    450 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Baltic Street or Bond 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 Records, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.