Bond Street & Butler Street

Bond Street and Butler Street meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Gowanus development. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 280 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about seven minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them playgrounds, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
1,150 feet
Bergen St/Bond St · B65
Within a walk
11 places
3 playgrounds, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bond Street & Butler 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 seven 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
    0.5 miles
    A C G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bergen St/Bond St, 1,150 feet away, for the B65.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St/Bond St B65
    1,150 feet
    B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bond Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bond St & Bergen St 27 docks in all
    1,020 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1.2 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
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2025
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2025

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
10 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and October 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bond Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY WEDNESDAY 8AM-1PM

North side of Butler Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

South side of Butler Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 23 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate and Italianate with alterations. They were mostly built between 1868 and 1870.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 parks
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New Dawn Charter High School
    1,090 feet
  2. Metrokids Cradle (Brooklyn) Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park
    780 feet
  2. Thomas Greene Playground
    980 feet
  3. Boerum Park Playground
    1,170 feet
Show all 5
  1. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park Playground
    1,250 feet
  2. Boerum Park
    1,260 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Boerum Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Agnes RC Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gowanus Community Center
    780 feet
  2. Douglass & Degraw Pool Swimming pool
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    200 feet
  2. Union Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bond Street or Butler 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, 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.