Columbia Heights & Orange Street

Columbia Heights and Orange Street meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Heights Promenade is 160 feet away. The nearest subway, Clark St, is about five minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them parks, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clark St
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Old Fulton St/Hicks St · B25
Within a walk
15 places
6 parks, 4 religious buildings and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Columbia Heights & Orange 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 five 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
    0.4 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 Old Fulton St/Hicks St, 0.3 miles away, for the B25.

  • 6 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

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 0.4 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
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two 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 August 2024.

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
70 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1899 and 1934.

Trees

NYC Parks records 108 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2014 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Columbia Heights

  • Carshare only 2 signs CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

North side of Orange Street

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

South side of Orange Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 237 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1840 and 1899.

  1. Hotel Margaret Designated landmark
    100 feet
  2. Towers Hotel Designated landmark
    510 feet
  3. St. George Tower Designated landmark
    720 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 parks
  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    560 feet
  2. The Emily Warren Roebling School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    30 feet
  2. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    160 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    280 feet
Show all 9
  1. Squibb Park
    370 feet
  2. Harry Chapin Playground
    370 feet
  3. Fort Stirling Park
    460 feet
  4. Hillside Dog Park
    550 feet
  5. Poplar Street Community Garden
    1,050 feet
  6. Pierrepont Playground
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Plymouth Church Landmark · listed historic place
    730 feet
  2. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church House of worship
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,320 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and three food stores.

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 Orange 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.