Court Street & Douglass Street

Court Street and Douglass Street meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Cobble Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Paras Court Theatre stands 140 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about six minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 71 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Court Street.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
290 feet
Court St/Kane St · B57
Within a walk
17 places
6 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Court Street & Douglass Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Bergen St F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

  1. Carroll St F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Court St/Kane St, 290 feet away, for the B57.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Court St/Kane St B57
    290 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Court Street.

  • 63 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Butler St & Court St 35 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Hicks Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at Woodhull Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 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
44 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1894 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2021 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 1 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 10pm on Court Street (west side).

East side of Court Street

  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 3 signs 1 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-1PM
  • Metered parking 3 signs 1 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 1PM-10PM SATURDAY 8AM-10PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Douglass Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Douglass Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 311400 and 332684.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Cobble Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 240 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1849 and 1863.

  1. Paras Court Theatre Designated landmark
    140 feet
  2. Trinity German Lutheran Church Designated landmark
    490 feet
  3. Christ Protestant Episcopal Church Rectory Designated landmark
    720 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Petits Poussins Carroll Gardens Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    40 feet
  2. Pache Montessori Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    120 feet
  3. Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School
    600 feet
Show all 7
  1. Kane Street Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    400 feet
  2. Success Academy Charter School - Cobble Hill School
    600 feet
  3. The Boerum Hill School for International Studies School
    600 feet
  4. BPOS Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Carroll Park
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Carroll Gardens Pop-Up Library Landmark
    770 feet
  2. South Congregational Church Listed historic place
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kane Street Synagogue Landmark
    400 feet
  2. Christ Episcopal Church Cobble Hill House of worship
    1,090 feet
  3. Saint Pauls RC Church House of worship
    1,180 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 378 Court Street Older adult center
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    580 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Union Market Supermarket
    100 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 71 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Court Street or Douglass Street.

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