Hicks Street & Baltic Street

Hicks Street and Baltic Street meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church stands 410 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Baltic St, is 460 feet away for the B61, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places and seven places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
460 feet
Columbia St/Baltic St · B61
Within a walk
7 places
1 college, 1 day care or pre-K site and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hicks Street & Baltic Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Baltic St, 460 feet away, for the B61.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Baltic St B61
    460 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Congress St & Hicks St 35 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11201
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
16 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2016 and March 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Baltic Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of Baltic Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 244 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1845 and 1879.

  1. St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church Designated landmark
    410 feet
  2. St. Peter's School (formerly Academy) Designated landmark
    450 feet
  3. St. Peter's Hospital Designated landmark
    590 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner.

  1. Timecast Installation by Nobuho Nagasawa, 2012
    380 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 029 John M. Harrigan School · landmark
    1,000 feet
  2. Brooklyn Preschool of Science Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,180 feet
  3. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Voorhees Playground
    540 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    1,300 feet
  2. Cobble Hill Health Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Episcopal Church Cobble Hill House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Union Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Baltic Street or Hicks 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.