Brooklyn Bridge & Cadman Plaza East

Brooklyn Bridge and Cadman Plaza East meet at a six-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Anchorage Plaza is 130 feet away, and Federal Courthouse Eastern District is 1,240 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about two minutes on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, seven of them parks, and 32 places to eat. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
High St
650 feet · 2 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Washington St/Prospect St · B25
Within a walk
22 places
7 parks, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn Bridge & Cadman Plaza East Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is High St, 650 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. High St A, C
    650 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
    1,220 feet
    F
  2. Clark St 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Washington St/Prospect St, 130 feet away, for the B25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Cadman Plaza East.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Henry St & Middagh St 34 docks in all
    790 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.3 miles 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
    440 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 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

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 144 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 45 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Eclectic, and mostly built between 1840 and 1899.

  1. 84th Police Precinct Designated landmark
    670 feet
  2. District School No. 8 Designated landmark
    680 feet
  3. 84th Police Precinct Garage Designated landmark
    730 feet

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
    90 feet
  2. William Jay Gaynor Memorial Bust by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1926
    400 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 7 parks
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 fire station
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    450 feet
  2. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet
  3. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    820 feet
Show all 8
  1. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    820 feet
  2. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,030 feet
  3. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    1,110 feet
  4. Dock Street School for Steam Studies School
    1,280 feet
  5. District 13 Pre-K Center at 25 Dock Street Pre-K center
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cadman Plaza Park
    40 feet
  2. Anchorage Plaza
    130 feet
  3. Walt Whitman Park
    610 feet
Show all 9
  1. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    980 feet
  2. Bridge Park 3 Park
    1,000 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    1,110 feet
  4. Poplar Street Community Garden
    1,130 feet
  5. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,280 feet
  6. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    1,310 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    790 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Federal Courthouse Eastern District Courthouse
    1,240 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    1,020 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 32 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Path or Cadman Plaza East.

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.