Bond Street & Douglass Street

Bond Street and Douglass Street meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Gowanus development. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Gate House, one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 300 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places and six places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Bergen St/Bond St · B65
Within a walk
8 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bond Street & Douglass Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Bergen St F, G
    0.4 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. Carroll St F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bergen St/Bond St, 0.3 miles away, for the B65.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St/Bond St B65
    0.3 miles
    B65

Next buses at this stop

  1. B65 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bond Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Degraw St & Hoyt St 27 docks in all
    920 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Hicks Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at Woodhull Street, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.5 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 five crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 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

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

Homes

About 2,600 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 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bond Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY WEDNESDAY 8AM-1PM

West side of Bond Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

North side of Douglass Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Douglass Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Neoclassical. They were built between 1909 and 1913.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 swimming pool

Schools and child care

  1. New Dawn Charter High School
    830 feet
  2. P.S. 032 Samuel Mills Sprole School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park
    1,040 feet
  2. Thomas Greene Playground
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Agnes RC Church House of worship
    970 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gowanus Community Center
    520 feet
  2. Douglass & Degraw Pool Swimming pool
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    140 feet
  2. Union Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Bond Street or Douglass Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.