Kane Street & Tompkins Place

Kane Street and Tompkins Place meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Cobble Hill Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Kane Street Synagogue is 110 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about six minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, five of them day care or pre-K sites, and 50 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
390 feet
Court St/Kane St · B57
Within a walk
16 places
5 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kane Street & Tompkins Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Bergen St F, G
    0.3 miles
    F G

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Carroll St F, G
    0.4 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Court St/Kane St, 390 feet away, for the B57.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Court St/Kane St B57
    390 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Kane Street.

  • 46 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. Kane St & Clinton St 27 docks in all
    330 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Columbia Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2023.

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
37 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 80 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Kane Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

East side of Tompkins Place

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Tompkins Place

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Cobble Hill Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 432 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1847 and 1872.

  1. Christ Protestant Episcopal Church Rectory Designated landmark
    380 feet
  2. Paras Court Theatre Designated landmark
    560 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Kane Street Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    110 feet
  2. Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School
    530 feet
  3. Success Academy Charter School - Cobble Hill School
    530 feet
Show all 9
  1. The Boerum Hill School for International Studies School
    530 feet
  2. Petits Poussins Carroll Gardens Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    660 feet
  3. Pache Montessori Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    810 feet
  4. P.S. 029 John M. Harrigan School
    890 feet
  5. BPOS Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,160 feet
  6. Open House Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cobble Hill Park
    1,020 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Carroll Gardens Pop-Up Library Landmark
    670 feet
  2. Cobble Hill Historic District Listed historic place
    850 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Kane Street Synagogue Landmark
    110 feet
  2. Christ Episcopal Church Cobble Hill Landmark
    400 feet
  3. Saint Pauls RC Church House of worship
    1,090 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,270 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Union Market Supermarket
    800 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 50 places to eat and 13 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Kane Street or Tompkins Place.

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