Gowanus Expressway & 3rd Avenue at 23rd Street

Gowanus Expressway, 3rd Avenue and 23rd Street meet at a six-way junction in Sunset Park (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Our Lady of Czestochowa & St Casimir Church is 770 feet away. The nearest subway, 25 St, is about five minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
25 St
1,200 feet · 5 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
3 Av/23 St · B37
Within a walk
5 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gowanus Expressway & 3rd Avenue at 23rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 25 St, 1,200 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  1. 25 St R
    1,200 feet
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Prospect Av R
    0.5 miles
    R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/23 St, 310 feet away, for the B37.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/23 St B37
    310 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 23 St & 3 Ave 24 docks in all
    100 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound at 3rd Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 668 3rd Avenue Gas station
    1,190 feet
  2. 533 2nd Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11232
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
38
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sunset Park (West)

The streets

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

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1932.

Trees

NYC Parks records 21 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 23rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 23rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. The Little Brooklyn Pre-K Center at 173-177 25th Street Pre-K center
    830 feet
  2. Berk Trade and Business School Trade or language school
    1,210 feet
  3. Brooklyn Cultural Center of New York School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Czestochowa & St Casimir Church House of worship
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    1,170 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 23rd Street, 3rd Avenue or Gowanus Expressway.

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