Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Columbia Street and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Hamilton Avenue) meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Dimattina Park Dog Run is 640 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Carroll St, is 1,110 feet away for the B61, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, three of them gardens, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest bus stop
1,110 feet
Columbia St/Carroll St · B61
Within a walk
13 places
3 gardens, 2 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/Carroll St, 1,110 feet away, for the B61.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Carroll St B61 · Shelter
    1,110 feet
    B61
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 22 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carroll St & Columbia St 39 docks in all
    1,240 feet

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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 1 person 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
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Elite Minds Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    810 feet
  2. Red Hook Neighborhood School
    1,180 feet
  3. Summit Academy Charter School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pirate's Cove Garden
    570 feet
  2. Dimattina Park Dog Run
    640 feet
  3. Dimattina Playground
    730 feet
Show all 7
  1. Harold Ickes Playground
    820 feet
  2. Summit Street Community Garden
    970 feet
  3. Coffey Park
    1,070 feet
  4. Amazing Garden
    1,230 feet

Fire and police

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

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven 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
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 23 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Columbia 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.