Hicks Street & Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel

Hicks Street and Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel 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. Dimattina Park Dog Run is 240 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Carroll St, is 0.3 miles away for the B61, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, three of them schools, and six places to eat. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1899 and 1930, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Gowanus Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Columbia St/Carroll St · B61
Within a walk
12 places
3 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hicks Street & Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Carroll St, 0.3 miles away, for the B61.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Carroll St B61 · Shelter
    0.3 miles
    B61
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet, one of them an on-street corral

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Carroll St & Columbia St 39 docks in all
    0.3 miles

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.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    1,310 feet
  2. 1 Beard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, July 2024
  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2025

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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are 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 1899 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

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

East side of Hamilton Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hamilton Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Hicks Street

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

West side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 dog run
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Elite Minds Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,050 feet
  2. Red Hook Neighborhood School
    1,100 feet
  3. Summit Academy Charter School
    1,100 feet
Show all 5
  1. Cobble Hill Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet
  2. Mary McDowell Friends - Middle School
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dimattina Park Dog Run
    240 feet
  2. Dimattina Playground
    560 feet
  3. Pirate's Cove Garden
    800 feet
Show all 5
  1. Harold Ickes Playground
    1,050 feet
  2. Summit Street Community Garden
    1,180 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 32/Engine 202/Ladder 101 Fire station
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 20 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel or Hicks Street.

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