Henry Street & Summit Street

Henry Street and Summit Street meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Summit Street Community Garden is 1,050 feet away. The nearest subway, Carroll St, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 15 places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1900 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Carroll St
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
1,220 feet
Columbia St/Carroll St · B61
Within a walk
17 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 3 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Henry Street & Summit Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Carroll St F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Carroll St, 1,220 feet away, for the B61.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Carroll St B61 · Shelter
    1,220 feet
    B61
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 1 Pl & Clinton St 34 docks in all
    530 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Hicks Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at Woodhull Street, 720 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.4 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 September 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11231
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
76
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
Elevation
45 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Henry Street

  • Carshare only 2 signs CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Summit Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Summit Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Beaux Arts and Greek Revival, one each, and built between 1840 and 1897.

  1. Hans S. Christian Memorial Kindergarten Designated landmark
    820 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Smith Street Workshop Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    310 feet
  2. Mary McDowell Friends - Middle School
    310 feet
  3. Regina's Group Daycare Pre-K
    630 feet
Show all 8
  1. Long Island Col Hosp Sch Nursing College
    640 feet
  2. Brooklyn Collaborative Studies School
    800 feet
  3. The Brooklyn New School, P.S. 146 School
    800 feet
  4. Cobble Hill Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    920 feet
  5. Elite Minds Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dimattina Playground
    520 feet
  2. Summit Street Community Garden
    1,050 feet
  3. Dimattina Park Dog Run
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. Amazing Garden
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. John Rankin House Listed historic place
    800 feet
  2. St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church Listed historic place
    960 feet

Fire and police

  1. 76th Precinct Police station
    1,060 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,290 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Henry Street or Summit 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.