Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel & Hamilton Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, Hamilton Avenue and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway meet at a five-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Pirate's Cove Garden is 800 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Carroll St, is 0.3 miles away for the B61, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them schools, and six places to eat. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1900 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Columbia St/Carroll St · B61
Within a walk
15 places
4 schools, 3 playgrounds and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel & Hamilton Avenue at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Carroll St, 0.3 miles away, for the B61.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Carroll St B61 · Shelter
    0.3 miles
    B61
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 21 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Henry St & W 9 St 19 docks in all
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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
11231
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
38 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
76
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Red Hook Neighborhood School
    870 feet
  2. Summit Academy Charter School
    870 feet
  3. Cobble Hill Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    990 feet
Show all 6
  1. Elite Minds Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,050 feet
  2. Brooklyn Collaborative Studies School
    1,220 feet
  3. The Brooklyn New School, P.S. 146 School
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dimattina Park Dog Run
    270 feet
  2. Dimattina Playground
    330 feet
  3. Pirate's Cove Garden
    800 feet
Show all 6
  1. Harold Ickes Playground
    1,050 feet
  2. Admiral Triangle Playground
    1,200 feet
  3. Summit Street Community Garden
    1,200 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 32/Engine 202/Ladder 101 Fire station
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and one food store.

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 24 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Hamilton Avenue.

Sources: MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYC City Planning, NYPD, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 3, 2026.