Clinton Street & Kane Street

Clinton Street and Kane Street meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Cobble Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Christ Episcopal Church Cobble Hill is 120 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 29 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Court St/Kane St · B57
Within a walk
15 places
4 religious buildings, 4 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Clinton Street & Kane Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Bergen St F, G
    0.3 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 Court St/Kane St, 690 feet away, for the B57.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Court St/Kane St B57
    690 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Clinton Street and Kane Street.

  • 39 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kane St & Clinton St 27 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11231
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
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 77 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

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

East side of Clinton Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Clinton Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Kane Street

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

South side of Kane Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Cobble Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 560 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1845 and 1872.

  1. Christ Protestant Episcopal Church Rectory Designated landmark
    160 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Kane Street Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    390 feet
  2. P.S. 029 John M. Harrigan School · landmark
    590 feet
  3. Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School
    820 feet
Show all 7
  1. Success Academy Charter School - Cobble Hill School
    820 feet
  2. The Boerum Hill School for International Studies School
    820 feet
  3. Petits Poussins Carroll Gardens Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    950 feet
  4. Pache Montessori Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cobble Hill Park
    730 feet
  2. Cobble Hill Park Playground
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cobble Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    550 feet
  2. Carroll Gardens Pop-Up Library Landmark
    740 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Episcopal Church Cobble Hill Landmark
    120 feet
  2. Kane Street Synagogue Landmark
    390 feet
  3. Saint Pauls RC Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Union Market Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 29 places to eat and eight food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Clinton Street or Kane Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.