Columbia Street & Sackett Street

Columbia Street and Sackett Street meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Human Compass Community Garden is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Sackett St, is 110 feet away for the B61, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them gardens, and 23 places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
12 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Columbia St/Sackett St · B61
Within a walk
11 places
5 gardens, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Columbia Street & Sackett Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

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

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Sackett Street.

  • 71 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Columbia St & Degraw St 21 docks in all
    350 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 1 Beard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2023
  • Turn calming, October 2025

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
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and June 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Columbia Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Columbia Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Sackett Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Sackett Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 303072 and 312687.

Landmarks and historic districts

Twenty buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1852 and 1854.

  1. Sacred Heart Catholic School Designated landmark
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 gardens
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Ladybug Playgroup Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    530 feet
  2. Elite Minds Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Human Compass Community Garden
    40 feet
  2. South Brooklyn Children's Garden
    40 feet
  3. Mother Cabrini Park Playground
    780 feet
Show all 7
  1. Amazing Garden
    780 feet
  2. Mother Cabrini Park
    920 feet
  3. Urban Meadow Garden
    920 feet
  4. Summit Street Community Garden
    1,040 feet

Fire and police

  1. 76th Precinct Police station
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,220 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and nine food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Columbia Street or Sackett 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.