Gowanus Expressway & 3rd Avenue at 41st Street

Gowanus Expressway, 3rd Avenue and 41st Street meet at a six-way junction in Sunset Park (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 24 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 7,116 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Gonzalo Plasencia Playground is 100 feet away. The nearest subway, 45 St, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, six of them schools, and 18 places to eat.

Safety record
24 hurt
24 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
45 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
3 Av/41 St · B37
Within a walk
12 places
6 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Gowanus Expressway & 3rd Avenue at 41st Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 45 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 45 St R
    0.3 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 36 St D, N, R
    0.4 miles
    D N R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/41 St, 100 feet away, for the B37.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/41 St B37
    100 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 41 St & 3 Ave 19 docks in all
    140 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound at 3rd Avenue & Connector, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 889 3rd Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 484 43rd Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 24 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2019

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 7,116 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 104th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 6,285 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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 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 1910 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2016 and March 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

West side of 3rd Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

North side of 41st Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 4 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM

South side of 41st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. I.S. 136 Charles O. Dewey School
    640 feet
  2. Sunset Park Prep School
    640 feet
  3. Bay Ridge Child Care Center Pre-K
    860 feet
Show all 8
  1. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 School
    960 feet
  2. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 15 School
    960 feet
  3. Colony South Brooklyn Houses Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,000 feet
  4. Sunset Park Avenues Elementary School
    1,190 feet
  5. Global Innovators Academy School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Gonzalo Plasencia Playground
    100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Sixty-Eighth Police Precinct Station House and Stable Listed historic place
    1,200 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Michaels RC Church House of worship
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Universe Supermarket
    230 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 18 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 3rd Avenue, 41st Street or Gowanus Expressway.

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