Columbia Heights & Middagh Street

Columbia Heights and Middagh Street meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies on the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Harry Chapin Playground is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about five minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, eight of them parks, and 26 places to eat. About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
High St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
1,150 feet
Old Fulton St/Hicks St · B25
Within a walk
19 places
8 parks, 3 religious buildings and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Columbia Heights & Middagh Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. High St A, C
    0.3 miles
    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. Clark St 2, 3
    0.3 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Old Fulton St/Hicks St, 1,150 feet away, for the B25.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Old Fulton St/Hicks St B25
    1,150 feet
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Columbia Heights & Cranberry St 37 docks in all
    220 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
    1.2 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
    3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2013.

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

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 139 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 190 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal, and mostly built between 1836 and 1899.

  1. Hotel Margaret Designated landmark
    420 feet
  2. The Eagle Warehouse and Storage Company Building Designated landmark
    630 feet
  3. Public School No. 8 Designated landmark
    640 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 parks
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 fire station
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    760 feet
  2. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    920 feet
  3. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Harry Chapin Playground
    30 feet
  2. Squibb Park
    60 feet
  3. Hillside Dog Park
    90 feet
Show all 10
  1. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    120 feet
  2. Poplar Street Community Garden
    580 feet
  3. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    620 feet
  4. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    680 feet
  5. Fort Stirling Park
    930 feet
  6. Anchorage Plaza
    1,190 feet
  7. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,250 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Old Fulton Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    860 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church Landmark
    790 feet
  2. Plymouth Church Listed historic place
    980 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    930 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. Dumbo Ferry Landing
    1,150 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and one food store.

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 22 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Columbia Heights or Middagh Street.

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