Columbia Street & Mill Street
Columbia Street and Mill Street meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Red Hook West development. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Coffey Park is 630 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Lorraine St/Columbia St, is 830 feet away for the B57 and B61. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and six places to eat.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Lorraine St/Columbia St, 830 feet away, for the B57 and B61.
- 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Lorraine St/Columbia St B57, B61 · Shelter830 feetB57 B61
Next buses at this stop
- B57 …
- B61 …
Cycling
A marked bike lane runs on Columbia Street.
- 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
- 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk
Nearest bike-share station
- Columbia St & W 9 St 21 docks in all210 feet
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at Clinton Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.
- 260 Hamilton Avenue Gas station0.4 miles
- 1 Beard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers0.5 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.
The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2020.
What the city has done here
- Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2020
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11231
- Community board
- Brooklyn Community Board 6
- City Council district
- 38
- Police precinct
- 76
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
- Elevation
- 8 feet above sea level
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1938 and 1940.
The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Red Hook West development.
Trees
NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedTwelve public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 3 day care or pre-K sites
- 3 religious buildings
- 3 schools
- 2 parks
- 1 playground
Schools and child care
- Pave Academy Charter School840 feet
- Red Hook Neighborhood School970 feet
- Summit Academy Charter School970 feet
Show all 6
- Bubble Bees Day Care - Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 51,000 feet
- Bumblebees-R-Us Preschool, ages 2 to 51,000 feet
- Bbru Lorraine Pre-K1,100 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Coffey Park630 feet
- Coffey Park Playground1,150 feet
- Red Hook Recreation Area Park1,290 feet
Supermarkets
- CTown Supermarket620 feet
- Associated Supermarkets Supermarket870 feet
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and six food stores.
Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.
Nearby corners
The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:
- Columbia Street & Centre Mall 250 feet
- Columbia Street & West 9th Street 250 feet
- Columbia Street & Verona Street 410 feet
- Columbia Street & Huntington Street 500 feet
- Hicks Street & Mill Street 510 feet
- Columbia Street & Bush Street 510 feet
- Dwight Street & Verona Street 590 feet
- Columbia Street & Lorraine Street 740 feet
See every intersection along Columbia Street or Mill Street.