President Street & Hoyt Street

President Street and Hoyt Street meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Carroll Gardens Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Carroll Park is 710 feet away, and New Dawn Charter High School is 1,260 feet away. The nearest subway, Carroll St, is about three minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them schools, and 24 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Carroll St
680 feet · 3 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
1,040 feet
Smith St/Union St · B57
Within a walk
10 places
3 schools, 1 ambulance station and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
President Street & Hoyt Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Carroll St, 680 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Carroll St F, G
    680 feet
    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. Bergen St F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Smith St/Union St, 1,040 feet away, for the B57.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Smith St/Union St B57
    1,040 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Hoyt Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Degraw St & Hoyt St 27 docks in all
    850 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Hicks Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway at Woodhull Street, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 327 Hamilton Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.9 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
Elevation
35 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. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1920.

Since 2014 at least 54 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 46 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hoyt Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Hoyt Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of President Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of President Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Carroll Gardens Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 164 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1872 and 1878.

  1. South Brooklyn Christian Assembly Church Designated landmark
    250 feet
  2. Carroll Park Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    280 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 032 Samuel Mills Sprole School
    500 feet
  2. Smith Street Workshop Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
  3. P.S. 058 the Carroll School
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. New Dawn Charter High School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Carroll Park
    710 feet
  2. Carroll Park Playground
    790 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 363-365 Bond Street Public space
    1,110 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 32 Ambulance station
    1,010 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Carroll Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    440 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Agnes RC Church House of worship
    670 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Union Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 24 places to eat and five food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hoyt Street or President Street.

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