Nevins Street & Butler Street

Nevins Street and Butler Street meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), one of two Individual Landmarks within 820 feet, stands 290 feet away, and David Foulke Memorial Garden is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Union St, is about nine minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them gardens, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Union St
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
3 Av/Douglass St · B37
Within a walk
9 places
2 gardens, 2 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Nevins Street & Butler Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union St R
    0.5 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Bergen St F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “CommUnion” (1994) by Emmett Wigglesworth at the Union St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/Douglass St, 900 feet away, for the B37.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/Douglass St B37
    900 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Douglass St & 3 Ave 35 docks in all
    870 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 3rd Avenue & Hamilton Avenue, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, fewer 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 September 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11217
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
39
Police precinct
76 and 78 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 25 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2015 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Butler Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING HOTEL LOADING ZONE

South side of Butler Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • Truck loading only 3 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM

East side of Nevins Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Nevins Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 21 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1871 and 1891.

  1. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Designated landmark
    290 feet
  2. Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Gate House Designated landmark
    430 feet
  3. Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station Designated landmark
    440 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 gardens
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Alonzo A. Daughtry Memorial Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Thomas Greene Playground
    300 feet
  2. David Foulke Memorial Garden
    970 feet
  3. All is Well Community Garden - Wyckoff Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    970 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth El Baptist Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Douglass & Degraw Pool Swimming pool
    440 feet
  2. Wyckoff Community Center
    990 feet
  3. Older adult center at 280 Wyckoff Street Older adult center
    990 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    880 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Butler Street or Nevins 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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.