Cadman Plaza West & Prospect Street

Cadman Plaza West and Prospect Street meet at a three-way junction in Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 40 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Anchorage Plaza is 50 feet away, and Walt Whitman Park is 970 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 21 public places, seven of them parks, and 43 places to eat.

Safety record
14 hurt
40 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
High St
580 feet · 2 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Old Fulton St/Henry St · B25
Within a walk
21 places
7 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Cadman Plaza West & Prospect Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is High St, 580 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
    580 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. Clark St 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Old Fulton St/Henry St, 180 feet away, for the B25.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Old Fulton St/Henry St B25
    180 feet
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 37 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
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 1,080 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    790 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 40 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 14 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2023

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
46 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cadman Plaza West

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Old Fulton Street

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Prospect Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 104 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
    340 feet
  2. District School No. 8 Designated landmark
    370 feet
  3. 84th Police Precinct Garage Designated landmark
    390 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
    330 feet
  2. William Jay Gaynor Memorial Bust by Adolph Alexander Weinman, 1926
    460 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 7 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    660 feet
  2. Vivvi 5 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    690 feet
  3. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    740 feet
Show all 6
  1. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  2. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    1,060 feet
  3. Edmund W. Gordon Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Anchorage Plaza
    50 feet
  2. Cadman Plaza Park
    180 feet
  3. Poplar Street Community Garden
    760 feet
Show all 9
  1. Hillside Dog Park
    960 feet
  2. Walt Whitman Park
    970 feet
  3. Maritcha R. Lyons Park
    1,220 feet
  4. Bridge Park 3 Park
    1,240 feet
  5. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,270 feet
  6. Harry Chapin Playground
    1,300 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Old Fulton Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn War Memorial Monument or memorial
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church House of worship
    830 feet
  2. Plymouth Church Listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    660 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 43 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cadman Plaza West, Old Fulton Street or Prospect Street.

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