Gowanus Expressway & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
Gowanus Expressway and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway 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. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1900 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredCycling
- 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at Clinton Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.
- 260 Hamilton Avenue Gas station0.6 miles
- 1 Beard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers1.2 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11231
- Community board
- Brooklyn Community Board 6
- City Council district
- 38 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
- Police precinct
- 76
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
The streets
- One travel lane
- A designated truck route
- 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 1900 and 1930.
Trees
NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- A bus stop within a ten-minute walk
- A signal or safety change
- A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
- A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
- A listed public place within a five-minute walk