Columbia Heights & Pineapple Street

Columbia Heights and Pineapple Street 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. The Standish Arms Hotel stands 600 feet away. The nearest subway, Clark St, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them parks, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Clark St
1,120 feet · 4 min on foot · 2, 3
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Cadman Plaza West/Cadman Tower · B25
Within a walk
14 places
6 parks, 4 religious buildings and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Columbia Heights & Pineapple Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Clark St, 1,120 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Clark St 2, 3
    1,120 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. 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/Cadman Tower, 0.3 miles away, for the B25.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cadman Plaza West/Cadman Tower B25
    0.3 miles
    B25

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park - Pier 2 31 docks in all
    500 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
    0.9 miles
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 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
72 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 104 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
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 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 2 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

North side of Pineapple Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 249 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1844 and 1899.

  1. Hotel Margaret Designated landmark
    320 feet
  2. Towers Hotel Designated landmark
    360 feet
  3. The Standish Arms Hotel Designated landmark
    600 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Plymouth Church School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · landmark
    810 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    170 feet
  2. Fort Stirling Park
    210 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    240 feet
Show all 9
  1. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    250 feet
  2. Squibb Park
    620 feet
  3. Harry Chapin Playground
    630 feet
  4. Hillside Dog Park
    810 feet
  5. Pierrepont Playground
    1,030 feet
  6. Poplar Street Community Garden
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Plymouth Church Listed historic place
    910 feet
  2. Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church House of worship
    1,150 feet
  3. First Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Columbia Heights or Pineapple 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.