Kent Avenue & North 3rd Street

Kent Avenue and North 3rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 26 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. North 5th Street Pier and Park is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, Bedford Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the L. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them parks, and 36 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Kent Avenue.

Safety record
6 hurt
26 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bedford Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Kent Av/Metropolitan Av · B32
Within a walk
13 places
4 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kent Avenue & North 3rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bedford Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Bedford Av L
    0.5 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “No Less Than Everything Comes Together” (2021) by Marcel Dzama at the Bedford Av station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kent Av/Metropolitan Av, 180 feet away, for the B32.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kent Av/Metropolitan Av B32
    180 feet
    B32

Next buses at this stop

  1. B32 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Kent Avenue.

  • 74 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Kent Ave & N 3 St 55 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Marcy Avenue & Hope Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 451 Lorimer Street Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 184 Kent Avenue Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    460 feet
  3. 260 South 4th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 26 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11249
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 1
City Council district
33
Police precinct
94
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Williamsburg
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 2007 and 2016.

Since 2014 at least 69 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Kent Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Kent Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 2AM-5AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 4 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

North side of North 3rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of North 3rd Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 public spaces
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Horizons Children's Centers Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    110 feet
  2. Bright Horizons at Kent Avenue Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2 · Pre-K
    110 feet
  3. MS Lam Montessori School
    860 feet
Show all 4
  1. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. North 5th Street Pier and Park
    260 feet
  2. Domino Park
    920 feet
  3. Grand Ferry Park
    1,050 feet
Show all 5
  1. Marsha P. Johnson State Park
    1,120 feet
  2. William Sheridan Playground
    1,220 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 184 Kent Avenue Public space
    40 feet
  2. Public space at The Edge Public space
    580 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Austin, Nichols & Company Warehouse Listed historic place
    320 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Consolation Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    90 feet
  2. Brooklyn Harvest Market Supermarket
    610 feet
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    870 feet
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other places

  1. North Williamsburg Ferry Landing
    1,170 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Kent Avenue or North 3rd Street.

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