College Place & Love Lane

College Place and Love Lane meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. First Presbyterian Church Rectory stands 370 feet away, and Saint Ann's School is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Clark St, is about four minutes on foot, and seven subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 27 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and 38 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clark St
940 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Cadman Plaza West/Clark St · B25
Within a walk
27 places
9 religious buildings, 7 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
College Place & Love Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clark St, 940 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 7 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clark St 2, 3
    940 feet
    2 3

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …
Outbound
2 lines
  1. 2 …
  2. 3 …

Also within a walk

  1. Borough Hall/Court St 2, 3, 4, 5, R
    1,110 feet
    2 3 4 5 R
  2. High St A, C
    0.4 miles
    A C

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Clark Street Passage” (1987) by Ray Ring at the Clark St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cadman Plaza West/Clark St, 0.3 miles away, for the B25.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cadman Plaza West/Clark St B25 · Shelter
    0.3 miles
    B25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 54 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pierrepont St & Monroe Pl 24 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.6 miles 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
    0.6 miles
  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)
Brooklyn Heights
Elevation
86 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 4,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2015 and January 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of College Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 2 signs PARKING PERMITTED WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

West side of College Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

North side of Love Lane

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 385 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1844 and 1899.

  1. First Presbyterian Church Rectory Designated landmark
    370 feet
  2. Hotel Brookmont Designated landmark
    380 feet
  3. Appellate Division Supreme Court of New York State 2nd Department Designated landmark
    400 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 public places.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 7 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. NY Kids Club Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  2. Imagine Early Learning Centers Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    570 feet
  3. Brooklyn Autism Center Academy School
    950 feet
Show all 10
  1. Altschool Preschool School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    740 feet
  2. Saint Ann's School
    970 feet
  3. Chabad Lubavitch of Brooklyn Heights Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    980 feet
  4. Rightway Therapeutic Services Preschool
    1,210 feet
  5. Smith Street Arts Et Lettres School
    1,230 feet
  6. Grace Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,240 feet
  7. Brooklyn Heights Synagogue Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pierrepont Playground
    950 feet
  2. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    1,090 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Brooklyn Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    770 feet
  2. Brooklyn Historical Society Historic site · listed historic place
    940 feet
  3. Center for Brooklyn History Library · listed historic place
    960 feet
Show all 4
  1. Brooklyn Trust Company Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Presbyterian Church Landmark
    420 feet
  2. Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church Landmark
    450 feet
  3. First Unitarian Church House of worship
    570 feet
Show all 7
  1. St Ann & the Holy Trinity Church Listed historic place
    770 feet
  2. Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Cathedral House of worship
    830 feet
  3. Chabad of Brooklyn Heights House of worship
    980 feet
  4. Grace Church Brooklyn Heights House of worship
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 55 Pierrepont Street Older adult center · landmark
    140 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,210 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,260 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    850 feet
  2. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,090 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    230 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 38 places to eat and ten food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Love Lane.

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