Hicks Street & Warren Street

Hicks Street and Warren Street meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The installation “Timecast” is 460 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Warren St, is 430 feet away for the B61, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them playgrounds, and nine places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
800 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
430 feet
Columbia St/Warren St · B61
Within a walk
9 places
2 playgrounds, 2 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hicks Street & Warren Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Warren St, 430 feet away, for the B61.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Warren St B61 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    430 feet
    B61
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 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
    370 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 800 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
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

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
18 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 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 June 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hicks Street

  • No parking 4 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

North side of Warren 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 ANYTIME

South side of Warren Street

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

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 223 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1848 and 1879.

  1. St. Peter's School (formerly Academy) Designated landmark
    270 feet
  2. St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church Designated landmark
    280 feet
  3. St. Peter's Hospital Designated landmark
    480 feet

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Timecast Installation by Nobuho Nagasawa, 2012
    460 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Preschool of Science Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    930 feet
  2. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    1,050 feet
  3. P.S. 029 John M. Harrigan School · landmark
    1,240 feet
Show all 4
  1. MS Lam Montessori School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Van Voorhees Playground
    290 feet
  2. Cobble Hill Park Playground
    1,090 feet
  3. Cobble Hill Park
    1,160 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    1,050 feet
  2. Cobble Hill Health Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and two food stores.

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 Hicks Street or Warren 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.