Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Columbia Street and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Exit 27) meet at a three-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. MS Lam Montessori School is 870 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Atlantic Av, is 210 feet away for the B61, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 13 places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
280 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
210 feet
Columbia St/Atlantic Av · B61
Within a walk
13 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Atlantic Av, 210 feet away, for the B61.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Atlantic Av B61
    210 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 29 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Atlantic Ave & Furman St 55 docks in all
    420 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 280 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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
11201
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
14 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 89 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1846 and 1886.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 parks
  • 1 college
  • 1 dog run
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Kinder Prep Childcare 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    730 feet
  2. MS Lam Montessori School
    870 feet
  3. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    1,050 feet
Show all 5
  1. Kinder Prep Childcare and Enrichment Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,070 feet
  2. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Voorhees Playground
    140 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park
    310 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    500 feet
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  1. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    540 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    540 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park Zone 6 Playground
    660 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Ferry Landing
    950 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Columbia Street.

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