Bergen Street & Boerum Place

Bergen Street and Boerum Place meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Hts Montessori School is 410 feet away, and Cobble Hill Park is 1,100 feet away. The nearest subway, Bergen St, is about two minutes on foot, and nine subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 72 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Bergen St
430 feet · 2 min on foot · F, G
Nearest bus stop
510 feet
Court St/Amity St · B57
Within a walk
15 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 4 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Bergen Street & Boerum Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Bergen St, 430 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 9 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bergen St F, G
    430 feet
    F G

Next trains at this station

Northbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …
Southbound
2 lines
  1. F …
  2. G …

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Court St/Amity St, 510 feet away, for the B57.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Court St/Amity St B57
    510 feet
    B57

Next buses at this stop

  1. B57 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Bergen Street and Boerum Place.

  • 112 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 6 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bergen St & Smith St 48 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 300 Bergen Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, November 2015

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
Elevation
32 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1899 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 84 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and December 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Bergen Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of Boerum Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Boerum Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 140 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate, and mostly built between 1850 and 1878.

  1. St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church Rectory Designated landmark
    530 feet
  2. Public School No. 78 Designated landmark
    780 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Mary McDowell Friends School-Element School
    250 feet
  2. Brooklyn Hts Montessori School
    410 feet
  3. Regina's Daycare Pre-K
    680 feet
Show all 9
  1. American Bus Inst of Brooklyn Trade or language school
    880 feet
  2. BPOS Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    900 feet
  3. Cobble Hill School of American Studies School
    1,230 feet
  4. Open House Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet
  5. Ladybug Preschool Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,290 feet
  6. P.S. 261 Zipporiah Mills School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cobble Hill Park
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Carroll Gardens Pop-Up Library
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Saint Pauls RC Church Landmark
    520 feet
  2. Antioch Pentecostal Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    740 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,200 feet
  3. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    1,090 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Union Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    790 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,280 feet
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 72 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Bergen Street or Boerum Place.

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