Doughty Street & McKenny Street

Doughty Street and McKenny Street meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Poplar Street Community Garden is 200 feet away. The nearest subway, High St, is about six minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them parks, and 45 places to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
High St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · A, C
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Old Fulton St/Hicks St · B25
Within a walk
16 places
6 parks, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Doughty Street & McKenny 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 six 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. Clark St 2, 3
    0.4 miles
    2 3
  2. York St F
    0.4 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Old Fulton St/Hicks St, 240 feet away, for the B25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Old Fulton St 39 docks in all
    520 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Vine Street, 120 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
    0.5 miles
  3. 28-17 42nd Road Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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
27 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Doughty Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING SATURDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

East side of McKenny Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of McKenny Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 160 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Federal, and mostly built between 1835 and 1894.

  1. The Eagle Warehouse and Storage Company Building Designated landmark
    230 feet
  2. The Long Island Safe Deposit Company Building Designated landmark
    280 feet
  3. Long Island Insurance Company Building Designated landmark
    300 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 parks
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 ferry landing
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 garden
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Dock Street School for Steam Studies School
    890 feet
  2. District 13 Pre-K Center at 25 Dock Street Pre-K center
    890 feet
  3. Bright Horizons at Dumbo Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet
Show all 4
  1. Seedlings Playschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hillside Dog Park
    170 feet
  2. Poplar Street Community Garden
    200 feet
  3. Anchorage Plaza
    280 feet
Show all 8
  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    620 feet
  2. Squibb Park
    860 feet
  3. Harry Chapin Playground
    930 feet
  4. Fruit Street Sitting Area Park
    1,030 feet
  5. Cadman Plaza Park
    1,080 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Old Fulton Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    530 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. St Anns Warehouse Theater or concert hall · listed historic place
    1,010 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 205/Ladder 118 Fire station
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Gristedes Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. Dumbo Ferry Landing
    1,000 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 45 places to eat.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Doughty Street or McKenny Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.