Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Prospect Street

Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Prospect Street meet at a four-way crossing in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Bridge Park 3 is 40 feet away. The nearest subway, York St, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them parks, and 30 places to eat. About 2,600 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
York St
620 feet · 2 min on foot · F
Nearest bus stop
230 feet
Prospect St/Jay St · B67
Within a walk
17 places
5 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is York St, 620 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. York St F
    620 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
    0.4 miles
    A C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Prospect St/Jay St, 230 feet away, for the B67.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Prospect St/Jay St B67
    230 feet
    B67

Next buses at this stop

  1. B67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Bridge St & York St 54 docks in all
    500 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Sands Street & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.5 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
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 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

  • 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.

Since 2014 at least 578 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and eight buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Italianate. They were mostly built between 1860 and 1896.

  1. Thomson Meter Company Building Designated landmark
    270 feet
  2. "Constitution" Engine Company No.7 Designated landmark
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 garden
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Amg School of Nursing College
    510 feet
  2. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    540 feet
  3. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    540 feet
Show all 6
  1. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    800 feet
  2. Petits Poussins Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    840 feet
  3. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bridge Park 3 Park
    40 feet
  2. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park
    40 feet
  3. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park Playground
    70 feet
Show all 7
  1. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    90 feet
  2. Vinegar Hill Community Garden
    1,110 feet
  3. Anchorage Plaza
    1,190 feet
  4. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,290 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at 90 Sands Street Public space
    840 feet
  2. Brooklyn Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    980 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Public School 7 Listed historic place
    740 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gold Organic Farm Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Wegmans Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    950 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 30 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

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

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