Columbia Street & Congress Street

Columbia Street and Congress Street meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The installation “Timecast” is 530 feet away, and Cobble Hill Health Center is 1,200 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Congress St, is 110 feet away for the B61, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them playgrounds, and four places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
160 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Columbia St/Congress St · B61
Within a walk
13 places
4 playgrounds, 3 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Columbia Street & Congress Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Congress St, 110 feet away, for the B61.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Congress St B61
    110 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Congress Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Congress St & Hicks St 35 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 160 feet 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
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2021

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
12 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2018 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Columbia Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Columbia Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 12 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Congress Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Congress Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 43 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Romanesque Revival, and mostly built between 1850 and 1878.

  1. St. Peter's School (formerly Academy) Designated landmark
    630 feet
  2. St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church Designated landmark
    700 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner.

  1. Timecast Installation by Nobuho Nagasawa, 2012
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Preschool of Science Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,080 feet
  2. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    1,200 feet
  3. Kinder Prep Childcare 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Voorhees Playground
    50 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park
    830 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,010 feet
Show all 8
  1. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    1,070 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    1,070 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park Zone 6 Playground
    1,070 feet
  4. Cobble Hill Park Playground
    1,230 feet
  5. Cobble Hill Park
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    1,200 feet
  2. Cobble Hill Health Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Columbia Street or Congress 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.