Nelson Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Nelson Street and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Red Hook East/Miccio Community Center is 960 feet away. The nearest subway, Smith-9 Sts, is about seven minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are 18 public places, six of them schools, and 15 places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1900 and 1920, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Smith-9 Sts
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
960 feet
Court St/Nelson St · B57
Within a walk
18 places
6 schools, 3 playgrounds and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nelson Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Smith-9 Sts, 0.4 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Smith-9 Sts F, G
    0.4 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
    0.5 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Court St/Nelson St, 960 feet away, for the B57.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Court St/Nelson St B57
    960 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Clinton St & 4 Place 25 docks in all
    790 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway at Nelson Street & Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, 90 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1 Beard Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 63 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eighteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 schools
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 community center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. International School of Brooklyn School
    990 feet
  2. Strong Place for Hope Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,010 feet
  3. Red Hook Neighborhood School
    1,020 feet
Show all 7
  1. Summit Academy Charter School
    1,020 feet
  2. Pave Academy Charter School
    1,130 feet
  3. Brooklyn Collaborative Studies School
    1,190 feet
  4. The Brooklyn New School, P.S. 146 School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Admiral Triangle Playground
    90 feet
  2. Dimattina Playground
    730 feet
  3. Dimattina Park Dog Run
    1,130 feet
Show all 6
  1. St. Mary's Park
    1,230 feet
  2. St. Mary's Park Playground
    1,270 feet
  3. Cough Triangle
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Mary Star of the Sea RC Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 120 West 9th Street Older adult center
    880 feet
  2. Red Hook East/Miccio Community Center
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 21 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Nelson Street.

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