Gates Avenue & Downing Street

Gates Avenue and Downing Street meet at a four-way crossing in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Clinton Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 056 Lewis H. Latimer is 370 feet away. The nearest subway, Clinton-Washington Avs, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clinton-Washington Avs
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
570 feet
Gates Av/Classon Av · B52
Within a walk
25 places
13 religious buildings, 5 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gates Avenue & Downing Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clinton-Washington Avs, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clinton-Washington Avs C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Classon Av G
    0.4 miles
    G
  2. Clinton-Washington Avs G
    0.5 miles
    G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Gates Av/Classon Av, 570 feet away, for the B52.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Gates Av/Classon Av B52 · Shelter
    570 feet
    B52
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B52 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cambridge Pl & Gates Ave 18 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Bedford Avenue, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 506 Grand Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 540 Waverly Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11238
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
35
Police precinct
88
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Clinton Hill
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Since 2014 at least 30 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

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 July 2015 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Downing Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Downing Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Gates Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Clinton Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 252 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate, and mostly built between 1865 and 1877.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 pedestrian plaza

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Schoolhouse Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    40 feet
  2. Starting Point - Bedford Stuyvesant School
    350 feet
  3. P.S. 056 Lewis H. Latimer School
    370 feet
Show all 8
  1. The Urban Assembly Unison School
    370 feet
  2. Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  3. Brooklyn Doodles Preschool
    850 feet
  4. Kings Bay YM - YWHA Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    950 feet
  5. Fort Greene Council Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Classon / Fulgate Block Association Garden
    840 feet
  2. 100 Quincy Community Garden
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Jitu Weusi Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,190 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lincoln Club Listed historic place
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Mount Zion Christian Mission Church House of worship
    320 feet
  2. Mount Sinai Baptist Church House of worship
    950 feet
  3. St Johns Church God FBH House of worship
    1,170 feet
Show all 5
  1. Elim International Fellowship House of worship
    1,220 feet
  2. Brown Memorial Baptist Church House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and five food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Downing Street or Gates Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.