Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn

The Brooklyn Navy Yard occupies the East River shore, bounded inland by Navy Street, Flushing Avenue and Kent Avenue.

  • 0.36 square miles
  • 67 street corners
  • 4 bus routes

Established in 1801, it built and repaired Navy ships for 165 years, among them the battleships Arizona and Missouri, and at its World War II peak employed tens of thousands of workers. After the Navy decommissioned it in 1966, the yard was sold to the City of New York; today it is managed by the nonprofit Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, with Building 92 serving as its exhibition, visitor and employment center.

Sources: History (Brooklyn Navy Yard); Brooklyn Navy Yard (Wikipedia).

Map

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Brooklyn Navy Yard borders four areas, and Flushing Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, ten of 67.

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  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on four routes stop in or at the edge of Brooklyn Navy Yard.

  • 4 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B57
  • B62
  • B67
  • B69

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 173 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.6 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 52 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at five of its corners

Turn calming
3
Leading pedestrian intervals
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more red-light camera tickets than school-zone speed or bus-lane tickets.

  • 5,613 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 764 school-zone speed camera tickets at one corner
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Flushing Avenue & Williamsburg Street West, 5,613
Most speed tickets
Flushing Avenue & Waverly Avenue, 764

Landmarks

Designated landmarks
The Dry Dock Number 1, the United States Naval Hospital and the Surgeon's House

Streets and trees

Trees
118 in NYC Parks' records, most often common hackberry, thornless honeylocust and hackberry
Street with the most corners
Flushing Avenue, with ten of the area's 67
Height above sea level
From 5 feet at Gee Avenue & Kay Avenue to 40 feet at Steiner Street & Neilson Street

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, seven bike-share stations stand in Brooklyn Navy Yard.

  • 7 bike-share stations

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.