Union Street & Hoyt Street

Union Street and Hoyt Street meet at a four-way crossing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. In 2025, 274 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 032 Samuel Mills Sprole is 460 feet away. The nearest subway, Carroll St, is about four minutes on foot, for the F and G. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them religious buildings, and 31 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
19 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Carroll St
950 feet · 4 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
730 feet
Smith St/Union St · B57
Within a walk
8 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Union Street & Hoyt Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Carroll St, 950 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Carroll St F, G
    950 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, 730 feet away, for the B57.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Degraw St & Hoyt St 27 docks in all
    540 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 19 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2024

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 274 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,506th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 159 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,900 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 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hoyt Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Hoyt Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Union Street

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

South side of Union Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 153 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
    550 feet
  2. Carroll Park Methodist Episcopal Church Parsonage Designated landmark
    570 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 community center
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 032 Samuel Mills Sprole School
    460 feet
  2. New Dawn Charter High School
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Carroll Park
    1,000 feet
  2. Carroll Park Playground
    1,080 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Carroll Gardens Historic District Listed historic place
    750 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Agnes RC Church House of worship
    360 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Gowanus Community Center
    1,300 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 31 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hoyt Street or Union Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.