Sackett Street & Hoyt Street

Sackett Street and Hoyt Street meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Agnes RC Church is 120 feet away, and Boerum Park Playground is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, Carroll St, is about five minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them religious buildings, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Carroll St
1,210 feet · 5 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
890 feet
Smith St/Union St · B57
Within a walk
10 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Sackett Street & Hoyt Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Carroll St, 1,210 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Carroll St F, G
    1,210 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
    0.4 miles
    F G

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Smith St/Union St, 890 feet away, for the B57.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hoyt Street and Sackett Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Degraw St & Hoyt St 27 docks in all
    280 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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 613 Baltic Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes 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 February 2025.

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
26 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • 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 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and October 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hoyt Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

West side of Hoyt Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Sackett Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Sackett Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 89 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as French neo-Grec, and mostly built between 1872 and 1881.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New Dawn Charter High School
    690 feet
  2. P.S. 032 Samuel Mills Sprole School
    720 feet
  3. Metrokids Cradle (Brooklyn) Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Carroll Park
    1,260 feet
  2. Boerum Park Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Carroll Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Agnes RC Church House of worship
    120 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gowanus Community Center
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and eight 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 Sackett Street.

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, 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.