Adams Street & Prospect Street

Adams Street and Prospect Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Maritcha R. Lyons Park is 590 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 20 public places, seven of them parks, and 39 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along one of the streets meeting here.

Safety record
8 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
820 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Washington St/Prospect St · B25
Within a walk
20 places
7 parks, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Adams Street & Prospect Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 820 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    820 feet
    F

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. F …
Southbound
1 line
  1. F …

Also within a walk

  1. High St A, C
    1,040 feet
    A C
  2. Clark St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Washington St/Prospect St, 320 feet away, for the B25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Adams Street and Prospect Street.

  • 62 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pearl St & York St 54 docks in all
    530 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 980 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.7 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
    2.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 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 between 1967 and 2006.

Since 2014 at least 561 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 106 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and September 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Adams Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Adams Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING W/ MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Prospect Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Prospect Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Fourteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as American Round Arch, and built between 1840 and 2000.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest at Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Underpasses.

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twenty public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 parks
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    60 feet
  2. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    400 feet
  3. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    430 feet
Show all 6
  1. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    430 feet
  2. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,040 feet
  3. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Anchorage Plaza
    330 feet
  2. Cadman Plaza Park
    430 feet
  3. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    590 feet
Show all 8
  1. Bridge Park 3 Park
    610 feet
  2. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    720 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    920 feet
  4. Walt Whitman Park
    1,000 feet
  5. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,180 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    860 feet
  2. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,030 feet
  3. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,030 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    1,180 feet
  2. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    1,280 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,150 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 21 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Adams Street or Prospect Street.

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