Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel & Hicks Street at Hamilton Avenue

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, Hicks Street and Hamilton Avenue (Hamilton Avenue) meet at a seven-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Red Hook Neighborhood School is 700 feet away. The nearest subway, Smith-9 Sts, is about ten minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them schools, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Smith-9 Sts
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Van Brunt St/Seabring St · B61
Within a walk
15 places
4 schools, 3 playgrounds and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Smith-9 Sts, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Smith-9 Sts F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

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

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

  • 20 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
    1,290 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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 travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are 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 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and February 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hamilton Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hamilton Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen 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
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Red Hook Neighborhood School
    700 feet
  2. Summit Academy Charter School
    700 feet
  3. Cobble Hill Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    820 feet
Show all 6
  1. Brooklyn Collaborative Studies School
    1,050 feet
  2. The Brooklyn New School, P.S. 146 School
    1,050 feet
  3. Elite Minds Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dimattina Playground
    160 feet
  2. Dimattina Park Dog Run
    260 feet
  3. Pirate's Cove Garden
    970 feet
Show all 5
  1. Admiral Triangle Playground
    1,030 feet
  2. Harold Ickes Playground
    1,220 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 32/Engine 202/Ladder 101 Fire station
    910 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 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, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Hamilton Avenue or Hicks Street.

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.