Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

This part of northwest Brooklyn joins Downtown Brooklyn, the civic and commercial center of the former City of Brooklyn, with DUMBO, Vinegar Hill and Boerum Hill.

  • 0.85 square miles
  • 40,968 residents, 2020 Census
  • 219 street corners
  • 10 subway stations
  • 18 bus routes

Borough Hall, opened in 1848 as Brooklyn's Greek Revival City Hall, stands amid courthouses, colleges and the Fulton Mall shopping district. DUMBO, short for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, is a former manufacturing center where artists began converting industrial buildings in the 1970s; part of it became a historic district in 2007. Boerum Hill, named for the Boerum family's colonial farm, is lined mostly with three-story rowhouses built between 1840 and 1870, and its historic district was designated in 1973.

Sources: Downtown Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Brooklyn Borough Hall (NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services); Landmarks designates new DUMBO historic district (CityLand); Boerum Hill, Brooklyn (Wikipedia).

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Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill borders five areas, and Jay Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 18 of 219.

Street map of Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, outlined among Fort Greene, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook and Brooklyn Navy Yard, with its ten subway stations and Cadman Plaza Park.Brooklyn Navy YardFort GreenePark SlopeCarroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red HookBrooklyn Heights
  • Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • York St lines F
  • High St lines A C
  • Borough Hall lines 2 3 4 5 accessible
  • Jay St-MetroTech lines A C F R accessible
  • DeKalb Av lines B Q R accessible
  • Hoyt St lines 2 3
  • Hoyt-Schermerhorn Sts lines A C G
  • Nevins St lines 2 3 4 5
  • Bergen St lines F G
  • Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr lines D N R accessible

Getting around

Ten subway stations and buses on 18 routes stop in or at the edge of Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill.

  • 10 subway stations
  • 4 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 18 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B25
  • B26
  • B37
  • B38
  • B41
  • B45
  • B52
  • B54
  • B57
  • B61
  • B62
  • B63
  • B65
  • B67
  • B69
  • B93
  • B103
  • T440

Safety record

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

  • 3,022 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 13.8 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 41 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 69 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
48
Accessible pedestrian signals
40
Turn calming
13
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
8
Safety Improvement Projects
5
Enhanced crossings
2

Camera tickets

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

  • 4,854 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 9,968 school-zone speed camera tickets at seven corners
  • 33,796 bus-lane camera tickets at six corners
Most red-light tickets
Tillary Street & Flatbush Avenue Extension, 2,524
Most speed tickets
Prospect Street & Cadman Plaza East, 3,287
Most bus-lane tickets
Fulton Street & Bond Street, 17,526

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 40,968 residents in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, about 48,200 per square mile.

  • 21,352 homes, 2020 Census
  • 14,853 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,511 residential lots hold buildings from 1900 or earlier, and 84% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Farragut and Ingersoll developments lie wholly or partly within Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill.

Farragut
Within Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
Ingersoll
Partly within Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
34.3 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Cadman Plaza Park (9.9 acres), Brooklyn Bridge Park (5.5 acres) and Columbus Park (5.4 acres)
Designated landmarks
The First Free Congregational Church, the Long Island Headquarters of the New York Telephone Company, the New York and New Jersey Telephone and Telegraph Building and the Offerman Building, among others
Historic districts
Boerum Hill, DUMBO and Fulton Ferry, wholly or partly within Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill

Streets and trees

Trees
3,686 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and maidenhair tree
Street with the most corners
Jay Street, with 18 of the area's 219
Height above sea level
From 6 feet at Water Street & Main Street to 83 feet at Cadman Plaza West & Clark Street
Honorary street names
9 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 37 schools and two libraries in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill.

Public schools
20
Charter and private schools
17
Libraries
Adams Street Library and Teen Tech Center at the Annex

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 27 bike-share stations stand in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill. The City's public art inventory lists ten works in the area, among them Henry Ward Beecher Monument (1891), McLaughlin Park World War I Memorial (1919) and William Jay Gaynor Memorial (1926).

  • 27 bike-share stations
  • 10 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 1,099 major felonies at places in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill

  • 1,187 major felonies in 2024
  • 3,648 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, the NYPD recorded another 238 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 32.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill.

Police precincts
84th (most of the area), 88th
Major felonies recorded at places in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 392 major felonies at places in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, against 496 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.