Douglass Street & Nevins Street

Douglass Street and Nevins Street meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Douglass & Degraw Pool is 210 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them gardens, and ten places to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 2023 and 2025, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
3 Av/Douglass St · B37
Within a walk
9 places
3 gardens, 1 community center and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Douglass Street & Nevins Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Union St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. Union St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “CommUnion” (1994) by Emmett Wigglesworth at the Union St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/Douglass St, 640 feet away, for the B37.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/Douglass St B37
    640 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Douglass St & 3 Ave 35 docks in all
    600 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 3rd Avenue & Hamilton Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No 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 February 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
78
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
Elevation
8 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 2023 and 2025.

Since 2014 at least 25 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2015 and May 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Douglass Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

South side of Douglass Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

East side of Nevins Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and three buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Neoclassical. They were built between 1909 and 1913.

  1. Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Gate House Designated landmark
    400 feet
  2. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Designated landmark
    440 feet
  3. Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station Designated landmark
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 gardens
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Alonzo A. Daughtry Memorial Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Thomas Greene Playground
    40 feet
  2. David Foulke Memorial Garden
    1,230 feet
  3. All is Well Community Garden - Wyckoff Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,230 feet
Show all 4
  1. Dolly's Park Garden
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Douglass & Degraw Pool Swimming pool
    210 feet
  2. Wyckoff Community Center
    1,250 feet
  3. Older adult center at 280 Wyckoff Street Older adult center
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,140 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Douglass Street or Nevins Street.

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