Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel & Hicks Street at Hamilton Avenue

Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, Hicks Street and Hamilton Avenue meet at a five-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dimattina Playground is 440 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Carroll St, is 1,220 feet away for the B61, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest bus stop
1,220 feet
Columbia St/Carroll St · B61
Within a walk
11 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 gardens 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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Carroll St, 1,220 feet away, for the B61.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Carroll St B61 · Shelter
    1,220 feet
    B61
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carroll St & Columbia St 39 docks in all
    0.3 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.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 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

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 dog run
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Elite Minds Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    930 feet
  2. Red Hook Neighborhood School
    980 feet
  3. Summit Academy Charter School
    980 feet
Show all 4
  1. Cobble Hill Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dimattina Park Dog Run
    350 feet
  2. Dimattina Playground
    440 feet
  3. Pirate's Cove Garden
    690 feet
Show all 5
  1. Harold Ickes Playground
    940 feet
  2. Summit Street Community Garden
    1,090 feet

Fire and police

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

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and three 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 25 corners within a three-minute walk:

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

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