Adams Street & Brooklyn Bridge

Adams Street and Brooklyn Bridge meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The bust “William Jay Gaynor Memorial” is 550 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about a minute on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them parks, and seven places to eat. About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
3 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
High St
90 feet · 1 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Washington St/Prospect St · B25
Within a walk
6 places
3 parks, 1 courthouse and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Adams Street & Brooklyn Bridge Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is High St, 90 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. High St A, C
    90 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. York St F
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Washington St/Prospect St, 690 feet away, for the B25.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Washington St/Prospect St B25
    690 feet
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 37 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Henry St & Middagh St 34 docks in all
    0.3 miles

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
    0.8 miles
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1,070 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 491 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 26 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and July 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of Adams Street

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO AWM & FLEO
  • 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 W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Red Cross Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Red Cross Place

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY NYC OWNED ELECTRIC VEHICLES CHARGING ONLY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Cadman Plaza Park.

  1. William Jay Gaynor Memorial Bust by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1926
    550 feet
  2. This Way Light installation by Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve, 2009
    610 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 parks
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 monument or memorial

Schools and child care

  1. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Walt Whitman Park
    180 feet
  2. Cadman Plaza Park
    600 feet
  3. Anchorage Plaza
    700 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    860 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Federal Courthouse Eastern District Courthouse
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

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

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