Adams Street & Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Path

Adams Street and Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Path (south) meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Brooklyn Bankruptcy Court is 430 feet away, and the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice is 700 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about four minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 34 public places, seven of them day care or pre-K sites, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
High St
1,140 feet · 4 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Tillary St/Adams St · B26
Within a walk
34 places
7 day care or pre-K sites, 7 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Adams Street & Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Path Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is High St, 1,140 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. High St A, C
    1,140 feet
    A C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. A …
  2. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    1,260 feet
    2 3 4 5 R
  2. Jay St-MetroTech A, C, F, R
    0.3 miles
    A C F R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Tillary St/Adams St, 250 feet away, for the B26.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Tillary St/Adams St B26
    250 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Path.

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Cadman Plaza E & Tillary St 52 docks in all
    470 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11201
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 2
City Council district
33
Police precinct
84
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1950.

Since 2014 at least 55 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 72 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 78 signs on these blocks
  • 21 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 4 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Tillary Street (south side).

East side of Adams Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Adams Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO AWM & FLEO
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO NYSJ MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • Authorized vehicles only 4 signs AVO OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO U S MARSHALS
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 300135.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Romanesque Revival, and built between 1885 and 1891.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Columbus Park.

  1. Henry Ward Beecher Monument Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward, 1891
    630 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 34 public places.

  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 7 schools
  • 5 courthouses
  • 5 parks
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Auxiliary Enterprise Board of New York City College of Technology Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    690 feet
  2. The Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice School
    700 feet
  3. Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women School
    700 feet
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  1. Community High School
    820 feet
  2. CUNY NYC College of Technology College
    900 feet
  3. Adams Street Daycare Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,050 feet
  4. Little Scholars Learning Center VIII Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,050 feet
  5. Saint Ann's School
    1,110 feet
  6. Northside Center for Child Development Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
  7. City Polytechnic High School of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology School
    1,140 feet
  8. George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School
    1,140 feet
  9. Rightway Therapeutic Services Preschool
    1,180 feet
  10. Heartshare Human SVCS Metrotech School
    1,180 feet
  11. Our Children's Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet
  12. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cadman Plaza Park
    430 feet
  2. Korean War Veterans Plaza Park
    460 feet
  3. Walt Whitman Park
    510 feet
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  1. McLaughlin Park
    530 feet
  2. Columbus Park
    530 feet
  3. McLaughlin Park Playground
    650 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 203 Jay Street Public space
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Heights Library
    970 feet
  2. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St James Cathedral Basilica Church House of worship
    680 feet
  2. First Unitarian Church House of worship
    1,230 feet
  3. Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cadman Plaza Post Office Landmark · listed historic place
    330 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bankruptcy Court Courthouse · landmark · listed historic place
    430 feet
  3. Federal Courthouse Eastern District Courthouse
    460 feet
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  1. Brooklyn Supreme Court Criminal Courthouse
    790 feet
  2. Brooklyn Family Court Courthouse
    830 feet
  3. Brooklyn Supreme Court Civil Courthouse
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. NYC Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Adams Street or Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Path.

Sources: MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.