Columbia Heights & Cranberry Street

Columbia Heights and Cranberry Street meet at a four-way crossing in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Fruit Street Sitting Area is 30 feet away, and the Engine 205/Ladder 118 firehouse is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Clark St, is about six minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them parks, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clark St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Old Fulton St/Hicks St · B25
Within a walk
16 places
6 parks, 3 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Columbia Heights & Cranberry Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clark St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clark St 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    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. High St A, C
    0.3 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 Old Fulton St/Hicks St, 0.3 miles away, for the B25.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Old Fulton St/Hicks St B25
    0.3 miles
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Columbia Heights & Cranberry St 37 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    1 mile
  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
    2.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes 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 May 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
68 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 134 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2014 and October 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Columbia Heights

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

North side of Cranberry Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • Other rule 2 signs PARKING PERMITTED TUESDAY 8AM-6PM ONLY

South side of Cranberry Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8AM-6PM

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 206 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Eclectic and Federal, and mostly built between 1839 and 1899.

  1. Hotel Margaret Designated landmark
    210 feet
  2. Towers Hotel Designated landmark
    710 feet
  3. Public School No. 8 Designated landmark
    720 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 parks
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    700 feet
  2. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    970 feet
  3. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    30 feet
  2. Squibb Park
    110 feet
  3. Harry Chapin Playground
    120 feet
Show all 8
  1. Hillside Dog Park
    300 feet
  2. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    400 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    460 feet
  4. Fort Stirling Park
    720 feet
  5. Poplar Street Community Garden
    800 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Old Fulton Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church Landmark
    730 feet
  2. Plymouth Church Landmark · listed historic place
    780 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and one food store.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Columbia Heights or Cranberry Street.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.