Warren Street & Nevins Street

Warren Street and Nevins Street meet at a three-way junction in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Wyckoff Gardens development. The corner is also named Samyia Spain Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Beth El Baptist Church is 670 feet away. The nearest subway, Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 2, 3, 4 and six more. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places and ten places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
3 Av/Warren St · B37
Within a walk
14 places
3 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Warren Street & Nevins Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 9 lines at the nearest station
  • 13 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 B D N Q R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
9 lines
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Outbound
4 lines
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Southbound
5 lines
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Also within a walk

  1. Nevins St 2, 3, 4, 5
    0.5 miles
    2 3 4 5
  2. Bergen St F, G
    0.5 miles
    F G

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Hook (Archean Reach), Line (Sea House), and Sinker (Mined Swell),” (2004) by George Trakas (in collaboration with di Domenico + Partners) at the Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 3 Av/Warren St, 640 feet away, for the B37.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 3 Av/Warren St B37
    640 feet
    B37

Next buses at this stop

  1. B37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Wyckoff St & 3 Ave 22 docks in all
    860 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four 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 July 2025.

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 and 84 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook
Elevation
18 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Samyia Spain Place, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Wyckoff Gardens development.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Samyia Spain Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 14 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2018 and May 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Nevins Street

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

North side of Warren Street

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

South side of Warren Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet are two Individual Landmarks, and 154 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1856 and 1872.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 older adult centers
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 community center
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Alonzo A. Daughtry Memorial Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  2. P.S. 038 the Pacific School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. David Foulke Memorial Garden
    450 feet
  2. All is Well Community Garden - Wyckoff Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    510 feet
  3. Thomas Greene Playground
    820 feet
Show all 5
  1. Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr. Park
    940 feet
  2. North Pacific Playground
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Beth El Baptist Church House of worship
    670 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Wyckoff Community Center
    530 feet
  2. Older adult center at 280 Wyckoff Street Older adult center
    530 feet
  3. Douglass & Degraw Pool Swimming pool
    960 feet
Show all 4
  1. Older adult center at 460 Atlantic Avenue Older adult center
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and four 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 Nevins Street or Warren 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, NYC Records, 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.