Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Pearl Street

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Pearl Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Maritcha R. Lyons Park is 530 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, six of them parks, and 46 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
York St
440 feet · 2 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
York St/Jay St · B67
Within a walk
25 places
6 parks, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 440 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    440 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
    0.3 miles
    A C
  2. Clark St 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is York St/Jay St, 340 feet away, for the B67.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St/Jay St B67
    340 feet
    B67

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Pearl Street.

  • 73 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
    70 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 930 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
    0.4 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 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

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
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 1992 and 2018.

Since 2014 at least 582 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 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 is one Individual Landmark, and 34 buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as American Round Arch. They were mostly built between 1888 and 1913.

  1. Thomson Meter Company Building Designated landmark
    730 feet
  2. Robert Gair Company Designated landmark
    740 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
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

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

  • 6 parks
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 2 libraries
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 7 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    380 feet
  2. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    380 feet
  3. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    400 feet
Show all 10
  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    460 feet
  2. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    580 feet
  3. Amg School of Nursing College
    910 feet
  4. Aveda Arts & Sciences Institute New Trade or language school
    1,030 feet
  5. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  6. Explore Enrich Charter School
    1,290 feet
  7. Success Academy Charter School-Nyc 15 School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    440 feet
  2. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    530 feet
  3. Bridge Park 3 Park
    560 feet
Show all 8
  1. Anchorage Plaza
    750 feet
  2. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    870 feet
  3. Cadman Plaza Park
    890 feet
  4. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,040 feet
  5. Brooklyn Bridge Park Playground
    1,310 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Pearl Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    760 feet
  2. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    800 feet
  3. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    980 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Dumbo Industrial District Listed historic place
    750 feet
  2. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    860 feet
  3. Adams Street Library
    1,190 feet
Show all 4
  1. Teen Tech Center at the Annex Library
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    620 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    690 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 26 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Brooklyn-Queens Expressway or Pearl 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.