Cadman Plaza East & Red Cross Place

Cadman Plaza East and Red Cross Place meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Cadman Plaza Park is 30 feet away, and Brooklyn War Memorial is 440 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about a minute on foot, and eight subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them parks, and 15 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
High St
380 feet · 1 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Washington St/Prospect St · B25
Within a walk
10 places
4 parks, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cadman Plaza East & Red Cross Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is High St, 380 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 8 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. High St A, C
    380 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
    0.3 miles
    F
  2. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    0.4 miles
    2 3 4 5 R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Washington St/Prospect St, 480 feet away, for the B25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Cadman Plaza East.

  • 44 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Henry St & Middagh St 34 docks in all
    1,140 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
    90 feet
  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 five crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
Elevation
73 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 1992.

Since 2014 at least 491 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 155 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2017 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cadman Plaza East

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY DISTRICT COURT CLERKS OFFICE
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY PRETRIAL SERVICESAGENGY
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY US IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO U S MARSHALS
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO US PROBATION MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Red Cross Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY THURSDAY SATURDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Red Cross Place

  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY NYC OWNED ELECTRIC VEHICLES CHARGING ONLY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 40 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Eclectic, and mostly built between 1840 and 1899.

  1. District School No. 8 Designated landmark
    740 feet
  2. 84th Police Precinct Designated landmark
    780 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Cadman Plaza Park.

  1. William Jay Gaynor Memorial Bust by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1926
    200 feet
  2. This Way Light installation by Linnaea Tillett and Karin Tehve, 2009
    430 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 monument or memorial

Schools and child care

  1. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    790 feet
  2. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
  3. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    1,160 feet
Show all 4
  1. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    1,160 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cadman Plaza Park
    30 feet
  2. Walt Whitman Park
    260 feet
  3. Anchorage Plaza
    480 feet
Show all 4
  1. Korean War Veterans Plaza Park
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    440 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Federal Courthouse Eastern District Courthouse
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 15 places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cadman Plaza East.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, 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 Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.