Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel & Hamilton Avenue at Coles Street

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, Hamilton Avenue and Coles Street meet at a five-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dimattina Playground is 200 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Van Brunt St/Seabring 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 16 public places, four of them schools, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Van Brunt St/Seabring St · B61
Within a walk
16 places
4 schools, 3 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel & Hamilton Avenue at Coles Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Van Brunt St/Seabring St, 0.3 miles away, for the B61.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Van Brunt St/Seabring 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

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 May 2022.

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

  • 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 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2018 and October 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Coles Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Coles Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Hamilton Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Red Hook Neighborhood School
    740 feet
  2. Summit Academy Charter School
    740 feet
  3. Cobble Hill Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    860 feet
Show all 6
  1. Brooklyn Collaborative Studies School
    1,090 feet
  2. The Brooklyn New School, P.S. 146 School
    1,090 feet
  3. Elite Minds Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dimattina Playground
    200 feet
  2. Dimattina Park Dog Run
    250 feet
  3. Pirate's Cove Garden
    930 feet
Show all 6
  1. Admiral Triangle Playground
    1,080 feet
  2. Harold Ickes Playground
    1,170 feet
  3. Coffey Park
    1,300 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 32/Engine 202/Ladder 101 Fire station
    870 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 eight places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 32 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, Coles Street or Hamilton Avenue.

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