Brooklyn

More people live in Brooklyn than in any other borough.

10,401 street corners
53 residential neighborhoods
69.4 square miles of land
2,653,963 residents Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025

It began as the Dutch town of Breuckelen and was an independent city until it joined Greater New York in 1898.

Neighborhoods

Brooklyn's street corners fall into 66 of City Planning's neighborhood areas, from Greenpoint in the north to Coney Island-Sea Gate on the Atlantic shore.

Brooklyn's streets and its 69 neighborhood areas outlined on a map, parks shaded green.

Neighborhood
Park
Cemetery
Other area
Another borough
Name in the list

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks.

Residential neighborhoods

Bath Beach 120 corners
Bay Ridge 384 corners
Bedford-Stuyvesant (East) 218 corners
Bedford-Stuyvesant (West) 191 corners
Bensonhurst 282 corners
Borough Park 259 corners
Brighton Beach 170 corners
Brooklyn Heights 112 corners
Brownsville 200 corners
Bushwick (East) 178 corners
Bushwick (West) 180 corners
Canarsie 439 corners
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook 403 corners
Clinton Hill 89 corners
Coney Island-Sea Gate 194 corners
Crown Heights (North) 165 corners
Crown Heights (South) 106 corners
Cypress Hills 193 corners
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill 219 corners
Dyker Heights 169 corners
East Flatbush-Erasmus 126 corners
East Flatbush-Farragut 126 corners
East Flatbush-Remsen Village 122 corners
East Flatbush-Rugby 183 corners
East New York (North) 204 corners
East New York-City Line 184 corners
East New York-New Lots 243 corners
East Williamsburg 377 corners
Flatbush 150 corners
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville 154 corners
Flatlands 332 corners
Fort Greene 118 corners
Gravesend (East)-Homecrest 222 corners
Gravesend (South) 134 corners
Gravesend (West) 211 corners
Greenpoint 212 corners
Kensington 95 corners
Madison 154 corners
Mapleton-Midwood (West) 143 corners
Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach 343 corners
Midwood 162 corners
Ocean Hill 149 corners
Park Slope 169 corners
Prospect Heights 54 corners
Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate 125 corners
Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach 461 corners
South Williamsburg 151 corners
Spring Creek-Starrett City 61 corners
Sunset Park (Central) 89 corners
Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West) 68 corners
Sunset Park (West) 215 corners
Williamsburg 281 corners
Windsor Terrace-South Slope 125 corners

Parks and other areas

nine areas

Barren Island-Floyd Bennett Field five corners
Brooklyn Navy Yard 67 corners
Canarsie Park & Pier five corners
Dyker Beach Park two corners
Fort Hamilton 45 corners
Marine Park-Plumb Island three corners
McGuire Fields one corner
Prospect Park 21 corners
Shirley Chisholm State Park 15 corners

Areas drawn in Queens

four areas

City Planning draws these areas in Queens, but some of their street corners are in Brooklyn.

Howard Beach-Lindenwood three corners
Ozone Park four corners
Ridgewood 14 corners
Woodhaven two corners

Getting around

Brooklyn has more subway station complexes inside its borders than any other borough.

156 subway station complexes
18 subway lines
78 bus routes with stops in Brooklyn

Safety record

Brooklyn has more leading pedestrian intervals than any other borough: signals that give people on foot a head start before cars move.

109,027 police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025
7 crash count at the median corner
2,561 corners with a leading pedestrian interval
3,208 corners with a signal or safety change of any kind

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In Brooklyn's precincts the NYPD recorded 31,032 major felonies during 2025, excluding complaints in the Department of Correction's jurisdiction.

Camera tickets

Brooklyn had more red-light camera tickets in 2025 than any other borough.

211,461 red-light camera tickets at 71 corners on the list
1,076,692 school-zone speed camera tickets at 627 corners on the list
119,826 bus-lane camera tickets at 44 corners on the list

Of Brooklyn's corners on the red-light list, Ocean Parkway & Avenue I had the most tickets, 14,477.

Brooklyn's corners on the city-wide camera-ticket lists: Red-light camera tickets · School-zone speed camera tickets · Bus-lane camera tickets

Homes, parks and landmarks

Brooklyn has added more homes since April 2010 than any other borough, by City Planning's Housing Database.

155,926 homes added, net, since April 2010
582 parks
237,400 trees in NYC Parks' records
41 historic districts Second to Manhattan's 59

Of the borough's parks, Marine Park and Prospect Park cover the most ground.

Elevation

Brooklyn's corners rise from 3 feet to 181 feet above sea level.

Highest: Prospect Park West & 18th Street, in Windsor Terrace-South Slope
Lowest: four corners tie, among them Stanton Road & Losee Terrace in Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach

Streets

There are 1,660 streets in Brooklyn with two or more intersections, each listing its corners in order along the road.

Questions about Brooklyn

How many intersections are in Brooklyn? There are 10,401 street corners in Brooklyn by this site's count, and every one has its own page.

Which Brooklyn neighborhood has the most street corners? Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach, with 461.

How many people live in Brooklyn? About 2.65 million, down from 2,736,074 at the 2020 Census.

Sources: Kings (The State of New York); New York City: The boroughs (Encyclopaedia Britannica); Traffic Signals (NYC Department of Transportation).