Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Adams Street

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Adams Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Anchorage Plaza is 460 feet away, and Brooklyn Bridge Park Playground is 1,200 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 25 public places, seven of them parks, and 46 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
670 feet · 3 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Washington St/Prospect St · B25
Within a walk
25 places
7 parks, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Adams Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 670 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    670 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
    1,280 feet
    A C
  2. Clark St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Washington St/Prospect St, 560 feet away, for the B25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 71 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pearl St & York St 54 docks in all
    410 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
    0.9 miles
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1,240 feet
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 30 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as American Round Arch, and mostly built between 1889 and 1916.

  1. Robert Gair Company Designated landmark
    600 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Underpasses.

  1. This Way Light installation by Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve, 2009
    390 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 7 parks
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 listed historic places
  • 2 pedestrian plazas
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    160 feet
  2. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    670 feet
  3. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    670 feet
Show all 8
  1. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    300 feet
  2. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    800 feet
  3. Amg School of Nursing College
    1,130 feet
  4. Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute New Trade or language school
    1,240 feet
  5. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Anchorage Plaza
    460 feet
  2. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    670 feet
  3. Cadman Plaza Park
    670 feet
Show all 10
  1. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    800 feet
  2. Bridge Park 3 Park
    850 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    950 feet
  4. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    1,150 feet
  5. Brooklyn Bridge Park Playground
    1,200 feet
  6. Walt Whitman Park
    1,240 feet
  7. Riverview Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park Park feature
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    800 feet
  2. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    1,100 feet
  3. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    940 feet
  2. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    1,080 feet
  3. Thomson Meter Company Building Listed historic place
    1,140 feet
Show all 4
  1. Adams Street Library
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    920 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 46 places to eat and six 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 22 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Adams Street or Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

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, 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.