Doughty Street & Elizabeth Place

Doughty Street and Elizabeth Place meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Fulton Ferry Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Eagle Warehouse and Storage Company Building stands 90 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about seven minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, six of them parks, and 49 places to eat. About 1,000 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 · 7 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Old Fulton St/Hicks St · B25
Within a walk
14 places
6 parks, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Doughty Street & Elizabeth Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 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. York St F
    0.5 miles
    F
  2. Clark St 2, 3
    0.5 miles
    2 3

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Old Fulton St/Hicks St, 530 feet away, for the B25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Old Fulton St 39 docks in all
    230 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 1,160 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 160 Johnson Street Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 35 Red Cross Place Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 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 September 2012.

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
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Doughty Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of Elizabeth Place

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

West side of Elizabeth Place

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Fulton Ferry Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 123 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal, and mostly built between 1835 and 1893.

  1. The Eagle Warehouse and Storage Company Building Designated landmark
    90 feet
  2. Brooklyn City Railroad Company Building Designated landmark
    250 feet
  3. The Long Island Safe Deposit Company Building Designated landmark
    290 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 garden
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Dock Street School for Steam Studies School
    780 feet
  2. District 13 Pre-K Center at 25 Dock Street Pre-K center
    780 feet
  3. Bright Horizons at Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hillside Dog Park
    280 feet
  2. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    330 feet
  3. Poplar Street Community Garden
    480 feet
Show all 8
  1. Anchorage Plaza
    530 feet
  2. Squibb Park
    610 feet
  3. Harry Chapin Playground
    670 feet
  4. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    780 feet
  5. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    1,280 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Old Fulton Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    240 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. St Anns Warehouse Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other places

  1. Dumbo Ferry Landing
    720 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 49 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 21 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Doughty Street or Elizabeth Place.

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.